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Spell
Sinister Strike
Physical
RogueViciously strike an enemy, causing (89.4% of Attack Power) Physical damage.
Tooltip
Viciously strike an enemy, causing (89.4% of Attack Power) Physical damage.
Awards 1 combo points.
How it works
Each cast of Sinister Strike costs 45 Energy. Casting it triggers a 1 sec global cooldown.
Sinister Strike is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:
- Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 0.8942 times attack power.
- Effect 2 is Energize (effect type 30). Its base value is 1.
What it does
Sinister Strike is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 5 yards. When cast it deals Physical damage and restores a resource (base value 1).
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
| School | Physical |
|---|---|
| Cost | 45 Energy |
| Range | 5 yards (Combat Range) |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Global cooldown | 1 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Effect #1 | School Damage (2) Attack power coefficient: 0.8942 |
| Effect #2 | Energize (30) Value: 1 Misc value: 4 |
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?
Sinister Strike appears in: 1 skill line.
Skill lines
- Rogue, learned automaticallySkill line
From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.
Related
More Rogue spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 30 separate Spell records named "Sinister Strike". This page is record #1752. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #14873 | effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #15581 | effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #15667 | effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #19472 | effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #46558 | effect types: Weapon Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #57640 | effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #59409 | effect types: Weapon Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #60195 | effect types: Weapon % Damage | A different effect setup |
| #69920 | effect types: School Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #76500 | effect types: Weapon Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #90214 | effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #90951 | effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip text | A 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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