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Fireball

Spell

Fireball

Fire

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Instant castLong Range

Hurls a fiery ball that causes 286 to 376 Fire damage and an additional 40 damage over 8 sec.

Fireball

Tooltip

Hurls a fiery ball that causes 286 to 376 Fire damage and an additional 40 damage over 8 sec.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

Fireball is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 286.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 10 per tick. It ticks every 2 sec, 4 times over the full 8 sec (40 base in total).

What it does

Fireball is a Fire spell with an instant cast, a range of 40 yards and effects that last 8 sec. When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 286) and applies an aura every 2 sec.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70576. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolFire
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Duration8 sec
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 286
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 10
Period: every 2 sec

Raw client values from the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70576. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 273 separate Spell records named "Fireball". This page is record #10578. 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
#9053cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#9488cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#11839cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#11921cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#11985cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#12466cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#13140cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#13375cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#13438cast time: 2 sec; duration: 6 secA variant record
#15228cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#15536cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#15662cast time: 2 sec; duration: 6 secA variant record

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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