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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)
Impale

Spell

Impale

Physical

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Instant castTower 100

Fires a spike through the floor, impaling all targets within 4 yards, dealing 7540 to 8460 damage and knocking them up in the air.

Impale

Tooltip

Fires a spike through the floor, impaling all targets within 4 yards, dealing 7540 to 8460 damage and knocking them up in the air. This attack ignores armor.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 7540. Its area radius is 4 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 250. Its area radius is 4 yards.

What it does

Impale is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Physical damage (base value 7540) in a 4 yard radius and has a Knock Back effect in a 4 yard radius.

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
Range100 yards (Tower 100)
Cast timeInstant
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 7540
Radius: 4 yards
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 250
Radius: 4 yards

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 159 separate Spell records named "Impale". This page is record #59446. 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
#56090effect types: Dummy, School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#58459duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#58666effect types: School Damage, Sanctuary; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#58672used by: Cast by Stomp; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#58978duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#59256duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#59268duration: 9 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#60882effect types: School Damage, Sanctuary; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#61164duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#62310duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#62331duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy, Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#62418journal encounter: Thorim; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy, Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different caster

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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