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Tail Sweep

Spell

Tail Sweep

Nature

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Swipes the ground behind the caster, inflicting Nature damage and knocking back targets, stunning them for 2 sec.

Tail Sweep

Tooltip

Swipes the ground behind the caster, inflicting Nature damage and knocking back targets, stunning them for 2 sec.

How it works

Tail Sweep is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 12.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 500.

What it does

Tail Sweep is a Nature spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 2 sec. When cast it applies an aura and deals Nature damage (base value 500). The client files the whole spell under the stunned mechanic.

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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Duration2 sec
MechanicStunned
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 12
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 500

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 23 separate Spell records named "Tail Sweep". This page is record #243411. 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
#68867school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#71369school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#90074school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#108589school: Physical; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#176463school: Physical; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#201354journal encounter: Shivermaw; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different caster
#243409school: Physical; duration: 0.5 sec; effect types: Dummy, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#243410school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: effect 144; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#336910school: Physical; cast time: 1 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#370073school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#392304school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Interrupt Cast, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#392306school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA 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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