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Piercing Strand

Spell

Piercing Strand

Physical

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Loom'ithar launches a heavily infused strand through their current target at high speed, inflicting 172.5 Arcane damage to all players in a line and increasing damage taken from Piercing Strand by...

Piercing Strand

Tooltip

Loom'ithar launches a heavily infused strand through their current target at high speed, inflicting 172.5 Arcane damage to all players in a line and increasing damage taken from Piercing Strand by 100% for 45 sec.

How it works

Piercing Strand is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is effect type 164, which the datamine does not name. It triggers Piercing Strand.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 164, which the datamine does not name. It triggers Woven Ward.

What it does

Piercing Strand is a spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. It also casts Piercing Strand (record #1237212) and Woven Ward.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the current retail game build. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolPhysical
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Effect 164
Trigger spell: Piercing Strand
Effect #2Effect 164
Trigger spell: Woven Ward

Raw client values from the current retail game build. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Piercing Strand appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 8 separate Spell records named "Piercing Strand". This page is record #1237907. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#1227261school: Nature, Arcane; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#1227263difficulty rows: Mythic; journal encounter: Loom'ithar; cast time: 3.5 sec; effect types: Dummy, effect 203A per-difficulty version
#1227265effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#1227742school: Arcane; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1237212difficulty rows: Normal, Looking For Raid; duration: 45 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA per-difficulty version
#1245602duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#1250388difficulty rows: Mythic; school: Nature; duration: 3.5 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA per-difficulty version

Compared fields: SpellMisc difficulty rows, school, cast time and duration; Spell subtext and tooltip text; SpellEffect types and base values; journal and class usage. The reason column names the first difference found.

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