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Thorns

Spell

Thorns

Nature

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Druid

Instant cast0.5 sec cooldownVision Range (AOI)

Casting Barkskin or Ironbark sprouts thorns on its target for 12 sec.

Thorns

Tooltip

Casting Barkskin or Ironbark sprouts thorns on its target for 12 sec. When victim to melee attacks, thorns deals (114% of Spell Power) Nature damage back to the attacker.

Attackers also have their movement speed reduced by 50% for 4 sec.

How it works

It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 1.14 times spell power.

What it does

Thorns is a Nature spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and a 0.5 sec cooldown. 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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown0.5 sec
Global cooldownNone
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Spell power coefficient: 1.14

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 29 separate Spell records named "Thorns". This page is record #305496. 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
#258985used by: Cast by Razor Gauntlets; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#288273duration: 10 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#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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