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Wailing Arrow

Spell

Wailing Arrow

Shadow

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Hunter

1 secLong Range

Fire an enchanted arrow, dealing (1400% of Attack Power) Shadow damage to your target and an additional (700% of Attack Power) Shadow damage to all enemies of your target.

Wailing Arrow

Tooltip

Fire an enchanted arrow, dealing (1400% of Attack Power) Shadow damage to your target and an additional (700% of Attack Power) Shadow damage to all enemies of your target. Non-Player targets struck by a Wailing Arrow have their spellcasting interrupted and are silenced for 1 sec.

Grants Deathblow.

How it works

Each cast of Wailing Arrow costs 15 Focus. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

Wailing Arrow is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Trigger Missile (effect type 32). It triggers Wailing Arrow.
  2. Effect 2 is Trigger Missile (effect type 32). It scales with 1.85 times attack power. It triggers Wailing Arrow.

What it does

Wailing Arrow is a Shadow spell with a 1 sec cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it launches a missile. It also casts Wailing Arrow (record #392058) and Wailing Arrow (record #392061).

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

SchoolShadow
Cost15 Focus
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast time1 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1Trigger Missile (32)
Trigger spell: Wailing Arrow
Effect #2Trigger Missile (32)
Attack power coefficient: 1.85
Trigger spell: Wailing Arrow

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?

Wailing Arrow appears in: 1 talent.

Talents

  • Wailing Arrow (2 talent definitions no current talent tree places)Talent

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 21 separate Spell records named "Wailing Arrow". This page is record #392060. 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
#348056used by: Cast by Wailing Arrow; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#348064school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 9 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#354831used by: Hunter; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different owner
#355589used by: Hunter; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different owner
#355596used by: Hunter; cast time: instant; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different owner
#355839school: Physical; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Knock BackA different effect setup
#357616cast time: instant; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#357617used by: Cast by Wailing Arrow; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#357618used by: Cast by Wailing Arrow; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#392058used by: Cast by Wailing Arrow; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#392061used by: Cast by Wailing Arrow; cast time: instant; duration: 1 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#398388cast time: instant; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Interrupt Cast; 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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