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An instant strike that causes 33 damage in addition to your normal weapon damage. Awards 1 combo points.
How it works
Each cast of Sinister Strike costs 45 Energy. Casting it triggers a 1 sec global cooldown.
Sinister Strike is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:
- Effect 1 is effect type 121, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 33. It scales with 1 times spell power.
- Effect 2 is effect type 328, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 1.
What it does
Sinister Strike is a spell with an instant cast and a range of 5 yards.
Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Burning Crusade client, build 2.5.6.70006. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.
Spell Details
| School | Physical |
|---|---|
| Cost | 45 Energy |
| Range | 5 yards (Combat Range) |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Global cooldown | 1 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Effect #1 | Effect 121 Value: 33 Spell power coefficient: 1 |
| Effect #2 | Effect 328 Value: 1 |
Raw client values from the Burning Crusade client, build 2.5.6.70006. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.
Related
More Combat spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 30 separate Spell records named "Sinister Strike". This page is record #8621. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #1752 | subtext: Rank 1; used by: Rogue | A different rank or variant |
| #14873 | effect types: Weapon Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #15581 | effect types: Weapon Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #15667 | effect types: Weapon Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #19472 | effect types: Weapon Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #46558 | effect types: Weapon Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #57640 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #59409 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #60195 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #69920 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #76500 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #90214 | effect types: none | A 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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