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Wailing Souls

Spell

Wailing Souls

Physical

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Instant castSelf Only

The Devourer of Souls lets loose a flood of Wailing Souls for 4 sec, inflicting 37.5 Shadow damage to anyone in front of her and knocking them back.

Wailing Souls

Tooltip

The Devourer of Souls lets loose a flood of Wailing Souls for 4 sec, inflicting 37.5 Shadow damage to anyone in front of her and knocking them back.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is effect type 77, which the datamine does not name.

What it does

Wailing Souls is a spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster).

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

SchoolPhysical
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Effect 77

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 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 9 separate Spell records named "Wailing Souls". This page is record #68871. 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
#68873school: Shadow; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#68875duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#68876duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#68899cast time: 3 sec; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 140A different effect setup
#68912journal encounter: Devourer of Souls; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#236072school: Shadow; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#236075journal encounter: The Desolate Host; school: Shadow; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#242609duration: 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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