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Cower

Spell

Cower

Physical

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Instant cast5 sec cooldownCombat Range

Cower, causing no damage but lowering your threat, making the enemy less likely to attack you.

Cower

Tooltip

Cower, causing no damage but lowering your threat, making the enemy less likely to attack you.

How it works

Each cast of Cower costs 15 Focus. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is Threat (effect type 63). Its base value is -30.

What it does

Cower is a spell with an instant cast, a range of 5 yards and a 5 sec cooldown. When cast it changes threat.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolPhysical
Cost15 Focus
Range5 yards (Combat Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown5 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1Threat (63)
Value: -30

Raw client values from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Related

More Pet - Generic spells

Arcane ResistanceArcane Resistance
CowerCower
Faster Attack IFaster Attack I
Faster Attack IIFaster Attack II
Faster Attack IIIFaster Attack III
Faster Attack IVFaster Attack IV
Faster Attack VFaster Attack V
Faster Attack VIFaster Attack VI
Faster Attack VIIFaster Attack VII
Fire ResistanceFire Resistance
Frost ResistanceFrost Resistance
Great StaminaGreat Stamina

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 17 separate Spell records named "Cower". This page is record #1742. 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
#83175effect types: noneA different effect setup
#177586used by: Cast by Giant Ogre Head; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#177958effect types: noneA different effect setup
#248724effect types: noneA different effect setup
#250247effect types: noneA different effect setup
#260619effect types: noneA different effect setup
#262090effect types: noneA different effect setup
#265543used by: Cast by Reveal Past; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#292042effect types: noneA different effect setup
#310175effect types: noneA different effect setup
#330722effect types: noneA different effect setup
#365210effect 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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70532, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted1 effect rows in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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