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Holy
PaladinTooltip
Each time the target takes damage they gain a Sacred Shield, absorbing damage and increasing the Paladin's chance to critically hit with Flash of Light by 50% for up to 6 sec. In addition, causes your Flash of Light to heal targets with Sacred Shield for an additional 100% over 12 sec. They cannot gain this effect more than once every 6 sec. Lasts 1 min. This spell cannot be on more than one target at any one time.
How it works
Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its dispel type is client id 1. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.
Sacred Shield is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:
- Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 6.
- Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 6.
- Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 100.
What it does
Sacred Shield is a Holy spell with an instant cast, a range of 40 yards and effects that last 1 min. When cast it applies an aura.
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
| School | Holy |
|---|---|
| Range | 40 yards (Long Range) |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Global cooldown | 1.5 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Duration | 1 min |
| Dispel type | Dispel type id 1 |
| Proc chance | Always |
| Effect #1 | Apply Aura (6) Aura type id 4 Value: 6 Misc value: 127 |
| Effect #2 | Apply Aura (6) Aura type id 4 Value: 6 Misc value: 127 |
| Effect #3 | Dummy (3) Value: 100 |
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.
Sacred Shield sounds
The sounds the game plays when Sacred Shield is cast and lands, straight from the client. Press play, or open a kit for every file and the download formats.
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
More Holy spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 5 separate Spell records named "Sacred Shield". This page is record #412019. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #20925 | subtext: Rank 1; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different rank or variant |
| #145766 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #1248674 | journal encounter: Lightblinded Vanguard; effect types: none | A different caster |
| #1248738 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #1255737 | effect types: none | A 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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