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Sinister Strike

Spell

Sinister Strike

Physical

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Viciously strike an enemy, causing Physical damage.

Sinister Strike

Tooltip

Viciously strike an enemy, causing Physical damage.

Has a 30% chance to hit an additional time and make your next Pistol Shot cost 30% less Energy and deal increased damage.

Awards 1 combo points each time it strikes.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 0.249.

What it does

Sinister Strike is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Physical damage (base value 0.249).

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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 0.249

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 30 separate Spell records named "Sinister Strike". This page is record #473257. 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
#183928effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#188286effect values: 43.72 (this record: 0.25); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#193315used by: Outlaw Rogue; effect types: School Damage, Energize; different tooltip textA different owner
#197834effect types: School Damage, EnergizeA different effect setup
#276889cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Weapon % DamageA different effect setup
#279877subtext: Rank 2; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#285175effect values: 0 (this record: 0.25); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#341541effect values: 0 (this record: 0.25)Different tuning
#417184cast time: 1 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#466109journal encounter: General Angerforge; cast time: 1 sec; duration: 1 min; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#472915effect types: School Damage, Energize, Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#473189effect values: 0.88 (this record: 0.25)Different tuning

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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