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Sandstorm

Spell

Sandstorm

Physical

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Instant castSelf Only

Your spells and abilities have a chance to summon a cylone of piercing winds.

Sandstorm

Tooltip

Your spells and abilities have a chance to summon a cylone of piercing winds. Enemies inside the cyclone take damage every 2 sec, and deal less damage to you.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).

What it does

Sandstorm is a spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and effects that last 18 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect 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

SchoolPhysical
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Duration18 sec
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 13796

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?

Sandstorm appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 43 separate Spell records named "Sandstorm". This page is record #273866. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page. The 12 records closest by id are compared here.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#257157duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#257495journal encounter: The Sand Queen; school: Nature; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#257564duration: 12 secA variant record
#257570duration: 12 secA variant record
#257571duration: 12 secA variant record
#257572duration: 12 secA variant record
#257580school: Nature; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#270759duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#273853duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#273858duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#273868school: Nature; effect types: Apply Aura, DummyA different effect setup
#273870school: Nature; effect types: Apply Aura, DummyA 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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