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Piercing Wail

Spell

Piercing Wail

Shadow

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4 secVision Range (AOI)

The shard screams, inflicting 30 Shadow damage to all players.

Piercing Wail

Tooltip

The shard screams, inflicting 30 Shadow damage to all players.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 30. Its area radius is 100 yards.

What it does

Piercing Wail is a Shadow spell with a 4 sec cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 30) in a 100 yard radius.

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

SchoolShadow
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast time4 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 30
Radius: 100 yards

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 Wail appears in: 1 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 2 separate Spell records named "Piercing Wail". This page is record #348428. 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
#445207school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 14 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup

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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