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Wailing Souls

Spell

Wailing Souls

Shadow

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Instant castSelf Only

Releases a host of wailing souls every 2 sec for 1 min, inflicting 50.5554 Shadow damage to all players within the spirit realm.

Wailing Souls

Tooltip

Releases a host of wailing souls every 2 sec for 1 min, inflicting 50.5554 Shadow damage to all players within the spirit realm.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 50.5554. It applies the infected mechanic. Its area radius is 200 yards.

What it does

Wailing Souls is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 50.5554) with the infected mechanic in a 200 yard radius. It stacks up to 4 times.

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Proc chanceAlways
Max stacks4
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 50.5554
Mechanic: Infected
Radius: 200 yards

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 Souls appears in: 1 boss encounter and 1 spell that casts it.

Boss encounters

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 9 separate Spell records named "Wailing Souls". This page is record #236075. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#68871used by: Cast by Wailing Souls; school: Physical; effect types: effect 77; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#68873effect values: 37.5 (this record: 50.56); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#68875school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#68876school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#68899school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 140; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#68912journal encounter: Devourer of Souls; school: Physical; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#236072cast time: 2 sec; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#242609school: Physical; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; 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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