I have some confusion about spells whose effects actually are casting other spells. Take for instance this example. Notice here the Snare effect is named "Touch of the Grey", which is actually the level 31 Mystic spell.
Where I am confused is in the naming of this Effect. Surely the level 1 Chilling Wind version in this spell line does not do 100 damage or slow for 36% - so why are they saying it applies "Touch of the Grey"? Or is that just some name they put on the effect to make it fancy, and in fact it has nothing whatsoever to do with the level 31 version of the spell (stats-wise) and I should ignore these references?
At first I thought I was going to have to script (and ask for LUA support) to pass a spell_id and call a sub-spell from within a spell. But the more I look at it, the less I think it's ACTUALLY calling the named spell itself - but only some fancy name to make the effect sound uber.
Thoughts?

I believe this is named this way because of the spell changes when they dropped the class and subclass spell names. and the reason it taken the touch of grey name is because it is the first spell name in that line orginally for the mystic class and not for the priest or shaman classes. this would be my guess. i was also guess they can scale the dmg of entire lines by changing one spell i have seen a post where a mod or dev was talking about this but would have to search for it. the reason i remember this vaguely was they changed a monk skill at a lower lvl and it made the higher lvl version of the skill in that line scale down slightly aswell and we lost a bit of deflection because of it and there was lots of chatter on the forums about it.

John Adams wrote:I have some confusion about spells whose effects actually are casting other spells. Take for instance this example. Notice here the Snare effect is named "Touch of the Grey", which is actually the level 31 Mystic spell.
Where I am confused is in the naming of this Effect. Surely the level 1 Chilling Wind version in this spell line does not do 100 damage or slow for 36% - so why are they saying it applies "Touch of the Grey"? Or is that just some name they put on the effect to make it fancy, and in fact it has nothing whatsoever to do with the level 31 version of the spell (stats-wise) and I should ignore these references?
At first I thought I was going to have to script (and ask for LUA support) to pass a spell_id and call a sub-spell from within a spell. But the more I look at it, the less I think it's ACTUALLY calling the named spell itself - but only some fancy name to make the effect sound uber.
Thoughts?

It's just a fancy name they used throughout the spell line. If you look at the level one spell, it does 6-7 damage and a slow of 30%

Yeah, I knew what the level 1 spell did, but due to the name Touch of the Grey, and that being the level 31 version of the line, I was questioning the validity whether or not it really was "Touch of the Grey", which it clearly is not
/ramble off