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Stinging Swarm

Spell

Stinging Swarm

Nature

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2.5 secMedium Range

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 Create Area Effect (effect type 179).

What it does

Stinging Swarm is a Nature spell with a 2.5 sec cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 15 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

SchoolNature
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time2.5 sec
Duration15 sec
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 33585

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 #452231. 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; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#438687school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#438708difficulty rows: Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; used by: Cast by Stinging Swarm; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Dummy, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#441641school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#448663duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#448672cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#448673used by: Cast by Stinging Swarm; cast time: instant; duration: none; 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
#452230cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#452233cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#456252difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; used by: Cast by Stinging Swarm; cast time: instant; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#460041school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; 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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