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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)
Mind Flay

Spell

Mind Flay

Shadow

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Priest

Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Assault the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing the target to 50% of their movement speed.

Mind Flay

Tooltip

Assault the target's mind with Shadow energy, causing Shadow damage over 3 sec and slowing the target to 50% of their movement speed.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 0.257 times spell power.

What it does

Mind Flay is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Shadow damage.

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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Spell power coefficient: 0.257

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.

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Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 110 separate Spell records named "Mind Flay". This page is record #58381. 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
#43512duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#46562duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#52586duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#54339duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#54805duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#57779duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#57941duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#59367duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#59974duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#60006duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#60472duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#65488difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); duration: 3 sec; effect types: Dummy, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version

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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