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Spell
Sweeping Claws
Shadow
Death KnightRakes an enemy with deformed claws, dealing Shadow damage to the target and Shadow damage to nearby enemies.
Tooltip
Rakes an enemy with deformed claws, dealing Shadow damage to the target and Shadow damage to nearby enemies.
How it works
Each cast of Sweeping Claws costs 40 Energy. Casting it triggers a 1 sec global cooldown.
Sweeping Claws is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:
- Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 80.
- Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 0.5216 times attack power.
- Effect 3 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 0.3603 times attack power. Its area radius is 8 yards.
What it does
Sweeping Claws 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 an 8 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
| School | Shadow |
|---|---|
| Cost | 40 Energy |
| Range | 5 yards (Combat Range) |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Global cooldown | 1 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Effect #1 | Dummy (3) Value: 80 |
| Effect #2 | School Damage (2) Attack power coefficient: 0.5216 |
| Effect #3 | School Damage (2) Attack power coefficient: 0.3603 Radius: 8 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?
Sweeping Claws appears in: 1 skill line.
Skill lines
- Pet - Ghoul, learned automaticallySkill line
From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.
Related
More Pet - Ghoul spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 2 separate Spell records named "Sweeping Claws". This page is record #91778. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #1278150 | different tooltip text | A variant record |
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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