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Soul Swipe

Spell

Soul Swipe

Shadow

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Warlock

Instant castCombat Range

Strikes nearby enemies with a malevolent claw, dealing (195.5% of Spell Power) Shadow damage to its target and (130.3% of Spell Power) Shadow damage to other enemies in.

Soul Swipe

Tooltip

Strikes nearby enemies with a malevolent claw, dealing (195.5% of Spell Power) Shadow damage to its target and (130.3% of Spell Power) Shadow damage to other enemies in.

How it works

Soul Swipe is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 1.9551 times spell power.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 1.3035 times spell power. Its area radius is 10 yards.

What it does

Soul Swipe is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 5 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage and deals Shadow damage in a 10 yard radius.

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

SchoolShadow
Range5 yards (Combat Range)
Cast timeInstant
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Spell power coefficient: 1.9551
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Spell power coefficient: 1.3035
Radius: 10 yards

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?

Soul Swipe appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 2 separate Spell records named "Soul Swipe". This page is record #1269049. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#1239714used by: Cast by Demonic Soul; different tooltip textA 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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