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Whirling Blade

Spell

Whirling Blade

Physical

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Throws a glaive at a targeted player, traveling back and forth from the position it was thrown.

Whirling Blade

Tooltip

Throws a glaive at a targeted player, traveling back and forth from the position it was thrown. The glaive inflicts 41.9817 Physical damage and knocks back any targets it touches.

How it works

Whirling Blade is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 41.9817.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 100.

What it does

Whirling Blade is a Physical spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Physical damage (base value 41.9817) and has a Knock Back effect.

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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 41.9817
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 100
Misc value: 50

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 35 separate Spell records named "Whirling Blade". This page is record #198781. 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
#91295used by: Cast by Whirling Blade; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#121896cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Trigger Spell, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#121897used by: Cast by Whirling Blade; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#121898used by: Cast by Whirling Blade; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#122083used by: Cast by Whirling Blade; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#124850effect types: effect 140A different effect setup
#124851used by: Cast by Whirling Blade; duration: 10 sec; effect types: SummonA helper record another spell casts
#127941cast time: 1 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Summon, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#127946duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#127949used by: Cast by Whirling Blade; school: Fire; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#198641journal encounter: Lord Kur'talos Ravencrest; cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#198782duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA 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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