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Shield Slam

Spell

Shield Slam

Physical

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1.5 secTwenty yards

Guard Captain Suleyman slams his target with his shield with tremendous force, inflicting 50 Physical damage and knocking the target away.

Shield Slam

Tooltip

Guard Captain Suleyman slams his target with his shield with tremendous force, inflicting 50 Physical damage and knocking the target away.

How it works

Shield Slam is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 50.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 100.

What it does

Shield Slam is a Physical spell with a 1.5 sec cast and a range of 20 yards. When cast it deals Physical damage (base value 50) 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

SchoolPhysical
Range20 yards (Twenty yards)
Cast time1.5 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 50
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 100
Misc value: 300, 2

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 44 separate Spell records named "Shield Slam". This page is record #448485. 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
#236388cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#304209effect types: Weapon % Damage, Knock BackA different effect setup
#316523subtext: Rank 2; cast time: instant; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#316790subtext: Rank 4; cast time: instant; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#318125cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#322470cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Weapon % DamageA different effect setup
#325241cast time: instant; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#337193cast time: instant; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#337631cast time: instant; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#391944cast time: 2 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Interrupt Cast; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#413232cast time: instant; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#458011cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, Energize; different tooltip textA 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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