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Swipe

Spell

Swipe

Physical

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Instant castCombat Range

A ferocious swipe that deals damage to the target and up to two additional nearby enemies.

Swipe

Tooltip

A ferocious swipe that deals damage to the target and up to two additional nearby enemies.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is Weapon % Damage (effect type 31). Its base value is 200. It jumps to up to 3 targets.

What it does

Swipe is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 5 yards. When cast it deals a percentage of weapon damage (base value 200) jumping to up to 3 targets.

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

SchoolPhysical
Range5 yards (Combat Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1Weapon % Damage (31)
Value: 200
Chain targets: 3

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 58 separate Spell records named "Swipe". This page is record #290783. 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
#267089cast time: 0.8 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Dummy, Health Leech, effect 114, Area Aura (Party); different tooltip textA different effect setup
#267090cast time: 0.8 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Dummy, Health Leech, effect 114, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#267206effect types: School Damage, Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#270976cast time: 0.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#277610cast time: 0.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#278324cast time: 0.5 secA variant record
#280941effect values: 147 (this record: 200); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#286270effect values: 100 (this record: 200); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#286271effect values: 100 (this record: 200)Different tuning
#288537effect values: 130 (this record: 200); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#292575effect types: School Damage, Energize; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#300745effect types: School Damage, Dummy, Dummy; 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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