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Gnomish Death Ray

Spell

Gnomish Death Ray

Physical

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Instant castShort Range

Physical spell.

Gnomish Death Ray

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 600.

What it does

Gnomish Death Ray is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 20 yards. When cast it deals Physical damage (base value 600).

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
Range20 yards (Short Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 600

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.

Sounds

Gnomish Death Ray sounds

The sounds the game plays when Gnomish Death Ray is cast and lands, straight from the client. Press play, or open a kit for every file and the download formats.

LifeDrainLoopSoundKit 3087

  1. Lifedrainloop4.9s · ID 569031 · spells
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

Joined in the WoW Forever beta client: spell visual, then visual kit, then SoundKit, then the sound file. Browse every game sound in the sound archive.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 6 separate Spell records named "Gnomish Death Ray". This page is record #13279. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#12759used by: Engineering; cast time: 12.5 sec; effect types: Create ItemA different owner
#13278duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#13280used by: Cast by Gnomish Death Ray; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#13493duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#133172effect 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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