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Solar Beam

Spell

Solar Beam

Nature

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Instant cast1 sec cooldownFifty Five Yards

You summon a beam of solar light over an enemy target's location, interrupting the target and silencing all enemies under the beam while it is active.

Solar Beam

Tooltip

You summon a beam of solar light over an enemy target's location, interrupting the target and silencing all enemies under the beam while it is active. Solar Beam lasts for 10 sec.

How it works

It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

Solar Beam is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64). It triggers Solar Beam.
  2. Effect 2 is Persistent Area Aura (effect type 27). It applies aura type 4. Its area radius is 5 yards.
  3. Effect 3 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 226. It ticks every 0.5 sec, 20 times over the full 10 sec.

What it does

Solar Beam is a Nature spell with an instant cast, a range of 55 yards, a 1 sec cooldown and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it leaves a persistent area effect on the ground in a 5 yard radius and applies an aura every 0.5 sec. It also casts Solar Beam (record #129891).

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

SchoolNature
Range55 yards (Fifty Five Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown1 sec
Global cooldownNone
Duration10 sec
Effect #1Trigger Spell (64)
Trigger spell: Solar Beam
Effect #2Persistent Area Aura (27)
Aura type id 4
Radius: 5 yards
Effect #3Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 226
Period: every 0.5 sec

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 "Solar Beam". This page is record #129888. 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
#78675used by: Talent: Druid; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Trigger Spell, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different owner
#81261duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#97547used by: Cast by Solar Beam; duration: 7 sec; effect types: Interrupt Cast; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#129889duration: 1.2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#129891used by: Cast by Solar Beam; duration: 0.0 sec; effect types: Interrupt Cast; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#165282school: Physical; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#165283school: Physical; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Summon; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#165286used by: Cast by Solar Beam; school: Fire; duration: none; effect types: effect 165A helper record another spell casts
#177454school: Fire; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#295521school: Holy, Fire; cast time: 1 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#295532used by: Cast by Solar Beam; school: Holy, Fire; duration: none; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#295533school: Holy, Fire; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA 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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