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Writhing Wave

Spell

Writhing Wave

Nature

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Loom'ithar unleashes a surge of silk towards its current target, inflicting 402.5 Nature damage and an additional 63.2666 Nature damage every 1 sec for 25 sec.

Writhing Wave

Tooltip

Loom'ithar unleashes a surge of silk towards its current target, inflicting 402.5 Nature damage and an additional 63.2666 Nature damage every 1 sec for 25 sec. The damage is split evenly among players in a frontal cone.

How it works

Writhing Wave is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 63.2666 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 25 times over the full 25 sec (1581.66 base in total).
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 255. Its base value is 100.

What it does

Writhing Wave is a Nature spell with an instant cast, an unlimited range and effects that last 25 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec and applies an aura.

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

SchoolNature
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Duration25 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 63.2666
Period: every 1 sec
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 255
Value: 100
Misc value: 22

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 4 separate Spell records named "Writhing Wave". This page is record #1227163. 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
#1227140duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1227226journal encounter: Loom'ithar; school: Physical; cast time: 4 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, DummyA different caster
#1227227school: Physical; duration: 0.1 sec; effect types: Dummy, 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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