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Return to Stone

Spell

Return to Stone

Physical

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Drains some of the life essence from players, knocking them back and inflicting 170.364 Shadow damage and forming a stone statue from that essence.

Return to Stone

Tooltip

Drains some of the life essence from players, knocking them back and inflicting 170.364 Shadow damage and forming a stone statue from that essence.

These statues frequently strike the ground, inflicting 40.8874 Physical damage and stunning targets in a frontal cone for 2 sec.

These statues remain until killed.

How it works

Return to Stone is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Spawn (effect type 46).
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4.

What it does

Return to Stone is a spell with an instant cast, an unlimited range and an effect that lasts until cancelled. When cast it has a Spawn effect and applies an aura.

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
DurationInfinite
Effect #1Spawn (46)
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4

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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 12 separate Spell records named "Return to Stone". This page is record #145483. 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
#142944duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#144872different tooltip textA variant record
#144873duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#145489cast time: 1 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#145499effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#145514school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Knock BackA different effect setup
#145537effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#148508different tooltip textA variant record
#148509different tooltip textA variant record
#148511different tooltip textA variant record
#333145journal encounter: Sun King's Salvation; cast time: 1 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster

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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