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Wailing Arrow

Spell

Wailing Arrow

Shadow

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Hunter

Instant castVision Range (AOI)

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

Its dispel type is client id 1.

  1. Effect 1 is Interrupt Cast (effect type 68). It applies the interrupted mechanic.

What it does

Wailing Arrow is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 3 sec. When cast it interrupts spellcasting with the interrupted 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

SchoolShadow
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Duration3 sec
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
Effect #1Interrupt Cast (68)
Mechanic: Interrupted

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 21 separate Spell records named "Wailing Arrow". This page is record #398388. 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; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#348064school: Physical; duration: 9 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#354831used by: Hunter; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different owner
#355589used by: Hunter; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different owner
#355596used by: Hunter; 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
#357616duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#357617used by: Cast by Wailing Arrow; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#357618used by: Cast by Wailing Arrow; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#392058used by: Cast by Wailing Arrow; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, School DamageA helper record another spell casts
#392060cast time: 1 sec; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile, Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#392061used by: Cast by Wailing Arrow; duration: 1 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts

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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