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Wrath of the Lich KingWrath of the Lich King era data from Blizzard's titan client, build 3.80.2.69874Also on WoW Forever · Classic Era · The Burning Crusade · MoP Classic · Retail (Midnight)
Banish

Spell

Banish

Shadow

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Instant castTwenty yards

Banishes an enemy, preventing all action but making it invulnerable for up to 10 sec.

Banish

Tooltip

Banishes an enemy, preventing all action but making it invulnerable for up to 10 sec. Only one target can be banished at a time.

How it works

Each cast of Banish costs 100 Mana. Its dispel type is client id 1.

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

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 12.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 39.

What it does

Banish is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 20 yards and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it applies an aura.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Wrath of the Lich King client, build 3.80.2.69874. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
Cost100 Mana
Range20 yards (Twenty yards)
Cast timeInstant
Duration10 sec
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 12
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 39
Misc value: 127

Raw client values from the Wrath of the Lich King client, build 3.80.2.69874. 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 24 separate Spell records named "Banish". This page is record #37527. 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
#27565no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#30231duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#37546duration: until cancelled; different tooltip textA variant record
#37833duration: until cancelledA variant record
#38009cast time: 1 secA variant record
#38376duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#38791duration: 8 secA variant record
#39622duration: 8 secA variant record
#39674cast time: 1 sec; duration: 15 secA variant record
#40370duration: 35 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, effect 77A different effect setup
#44765cast time: 2 sec; duration: 8 secA variant record
#44836duration: until cancelledA variant record

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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