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Return to Stone

Spell

Return to Stone

Shadow

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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 School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 170.364.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 100.

What it does

Return to Stone is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 170.364) and has a Knock Back effect.

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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 170.364
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 100
Misc value: 100

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 #145514. 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
#142944school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#144872school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Spawn, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#144873school: Physical; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#145483school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Spawn, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#145489school: Physical; cast time: 1 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#145499school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#145537school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#148508school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Spawn, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#148509school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Spawn, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#148511school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Spawn, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#333145journal encounter: Sun King's Salvation; school: Physical; 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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