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Spell
S.O.S. Flare
Physical
Tooltip
Shoots a flare into the sky, alerting your location to all allies within your zone.
What it does
S.O.S. Flare is a spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and a 5 sec cooldown.
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 facts
Datamined from the current retail game build. Numbers that scale with level or stats are shown at their base value.
Items that grant this spell
Spell Details
| School | Physical |
|---|---|
| Range | Self Only |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Cooldown | 5 sec |
| Global cooldown | None |
| Effect #1 | Effect 77 Value: 300000 |
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.
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 4 separate Spell records named "S.O.S. Flare". This page is record #285052. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #170591 | duration: 15 sec; effect types: Trigger Spell, Summon; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #170593 | duration: 15 sec; effect types: Trigger Spell, Summon; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #226748 | different tooltip text | A variant record |
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.