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Arcane Blast

Spell

Arcane Blast

Arcane

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Instant castCombat Range

Blasts an enemy with Arcane magic, inflicting normal damage plus 10 and knocking the enemy back.

Arcane Blast

Tooltip

Blasts an enemy with Arcane magic, inflicting normal damage plus 10 and knocking the enemy back.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 50.
  2. Effect 2 is Weapon Damage (effect type 58). Its base value is 10.

What it does

Arcane Blast is an Arcane spell with an instant cast and a range of 5 yards. When cast it has a Knock Back effect and deals weapon damage (base value 10).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70268. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolArcane
Range5 yards (Combat Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Knock Back (98)
Value: 50
Misc value: 350
Effect #2Weapon Damage (58)
Value: 10

Raw client values from the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70268. 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 100 separate Spell records named "Arcane Blast". This page is record #38342. 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
#30451used by: Arcane Mage; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different owner
#31457effect types: Knock Back, School DamageA different effect setup
#32935effect types: Knock Back, School DamageA different effect setup
#34793effect types: Knock Back, School DamageA different effect setup
#35314effect types: Knock Back, School DamageA different effect setup
#35927cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#37126effect types: Knock Back, School DamageA different effect setup
#38344effect types: Knock Back, Weapon % DamageA different effect setup
#38538effect types: Knock Back, School DamageA different effect setup
#38881cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#40837effect types: Knock Back, School DamageA different effect setup
#40881effect types: Knock Back, School DamageA 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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