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Thorns

Spell

Thorns

Nature

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Instant castTwelve yards

Your melee attacks have a chance to surround you with electricity, dealing Nature damage to all nearby enemies every 3 sec for 15 sec.

Thorns

Tooltip

Your melee attacks have a chance to surround you with electricity, dealing Nature damage to all nearby enemies every 3 sec for 15 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2).

What it does

Thorns is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 12 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage.

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
Range12 yards (Twelve yards)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)

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?

Thorns appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 29 separate Spell records named "Thorns". This page is record #258985. 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
#113966duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#165771duration: 10 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#188652duration: 10 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#209334duration: 10 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#232559subtext: PvP Talent; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#288273duration: 10 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#305496different tooltip textA variant record
#305497subtext: PvP Talent; used by: Cast by Thorns; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#372384subtext: Talent; used by: Cast by Nature's Wrath; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#372387used by: Cast by Thorns; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#418805duration: 10 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#429001duration: until cancelled; effect types: effect 271; 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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