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Spear of Anguish

Spell

Spear of Anguish

Shadow

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Your ranged attacks and spells have a chance to conjure a Spear of Anguish.

Spear of Anguish

Tooltip

Your ranged attacks and spells have a chance to conjure a Spear of Anguish. After 3 sec the spear launches towards its target, dealing Shadow damage to all enemies it passes through.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).

What it does

Spear of Anguish is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 1.5 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect 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

SchoolShadow
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Duration1.5 sec
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 10882

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 14 separate Spell records named "Spear of Anguish". This page is record #246708. 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
#194604school: Nature; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#235923difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA per-difficulty version
#235924duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#235932used by: Cast by Spear of Anguish; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA helper record another spell casts
#235933difficulty rows: Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; journal encounter: The Desolate Host; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Knock Back, effect 140, effect 140; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#238442difficulty rows: Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; used by: Cast by Spear of Anguish; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#242605duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#242606used by: Cast by Spear of Anguish; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#242607duration: none; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#242608duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#242796journal encounter: The Desolate Host; duration: none; effect types: Knock Back, School Damage, effect 140, effect 140; different tooltip textA different caster
#243644used by: Cast by Spear of Anguish; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA 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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