Tooltip
Charges an enemy, knocking it back and inflicting 11 Physical damage.
What it does
Shield Charge is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 8-25 yards. When cast it has a Knock Back effect and deals Physical damage (base value 11).
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.
Spell Details
| School | Physical |
|---|---|
| Range | 8-25 yards (Charge) |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Effect #1 | Effect 96 |
| Effect #2 | Knock Back (98) Value: 75 Misc value: 150 |
| Effect #3 | School Damage (2) Value: 11 |
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 28 separate Spell records named "Shield Charge". This page is record #19131. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #15749 | effect types: effect 96, Knock Back, Weapon % Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #31863 | school: Holy; effect types: effect 96, Trigger Spell; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #35472 | effect types: effect 96, Knock Back, Weapon Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #38630 | effect values: 0, 75, 43.41 (this record: 0, 75, 11); different tooltip text | Different tuning |
| #158134 | cast time: 3 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Dummy, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #158136 | journal encounter: Twin Ogron; effect types: Dummy, Trigger Spell; different tooltip text | A different caster |
| #158159 | effect types: School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #158165 | used by: Cast by Shield Charge; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip text | A helper record another spell casts |
| #158291 | used by: Cast by Shield Slam; effect types: effect 144; different tooltip text | A helper record another spell casts |
| #166178 | cast time: 2 sec; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Dummy, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, effect 226; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #166180 | effect types: School Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #166181 | used by: Cast by Shield Slam; effect types: effect 144; different tooltip text | A helper record another spell casts |
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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