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Power Word: Barrier

Spell

Power Word: Barrier

Holy

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Priest

Instant cast3 min cooldownLong Range

Summons a holy barrier to protect all allies at the target location for 10 sec, reducing all damage taken by 20% and preventing damage from delaying spellcasting.

Power Word: Barrier

Tooltip

Summons a holy barrier to protect all allies at the target location for 10 sec, reducing all damage taken by 20% and preventing damage from delaying spellcasting.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179). Its area radius is 8 yards.

What it does

Power Word: Barrier is a Holy spell with an instant cast, a range of 40 yards, a 3 min cooldown and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect effect in an 8 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

SchoolHoly
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown3 min
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration10 sec
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 1489
Radius: 8 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?

Power Word: Barrier appears in: 1 talent.

Talents

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 6 separate Spell records named "Power Word: Barrier". This page is record #62618. 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
#81782duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#115725school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#146810school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#204756cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#204760duration: until cancelled; effect types: 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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