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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)
Devastate

Spell

Devastate

Physical

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Instant castCombat Range

Sunder the target's armor causing the Sunder Armor effect.

Devastate

Tooltip

Sunder the target's armor causing the Sunder Armor effect. In addition, causes 50% of weapon damage plus 90 for each application of Sunder Armor on the target.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

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

  1. Effect 2 is Weapon % Damage (effect type 31). Its base value is 50.
  2. Effect 3 is effect type 121, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 90.

What it does

Devastate is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 5 yards. When cast it deals a percentage of weapon damage (base value 50). It stacks up to 5 times.

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

SchoolPhysical
Range5 yards (Combat Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Proc chanceAlways
Max stacks5
Effect #2Weapon % Damage (31)
Value: 50
Effect #3Effect 121
Value: 90

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 19 separate Spell records named "Devastate". This page is record #69902. 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
#20243subtext: Rank 1; used by: Protection Warrior; effect types: Dummy, Weapon % Damage, effect 121A different rank or variant
#36891duration: 1 sec; effect types: School Damage, Knock Back, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#36894used by: Cast by Devastate; effect types: School Damage, Knock BackA helper record another spell casts
#38849duration: 1 sec; effect types: School Damage, Knock Back, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#38967used by: Cast by Devastate; effect types: School Damage, Knock BackA helper record another spell casts
#57795no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#60018no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#62317no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#78660effect types: noneA different effect setup
#108042effect types: noneA different effect setup
#145060effect types: noneA different effect setup
#153832effect types: noneA 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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