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Stinging Swarm

Spell

Stinging Swarm

Nature

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Instant castSelf Only

The caster calls forth a swarm of stinging insects that follows the target for 15 sec, inflicting Nature damage every 1 sec to every player caught within and reducing their movement speed by 50%.

Stinging Swarm

Tooltip

The caster calls forth a swarm of stinging insects that follows the target for 15 sec, inflicting Nature damage every 1 sec to every player caught within and reducing their movement speed by 50%.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its area radius is 30 yards.

What it does

Stinging Swarm is a Nature spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster).

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Radius: 30 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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 19 separate Spell records named "Stinging Swarm". This page is record #452230. 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
#438677journal encounter: The Silken Court; school: Physical; cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 3 (this record: 0); different tooltip textA different caster
#438687school: Physical; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#438708difficulty rows: Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; used by: Cast by Stinging Swarm; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Dummy, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#441641school: PhysicalA variant record
#448663cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#448672duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#448673used by: Cast by Stinging Swarm; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#450728cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, effect 226; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#452231cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#452233duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#456252difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; used by: Cast by Stinging Swarm; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#460041school: Physical; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA 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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