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Arcane Blast

Spell

Arcane Blast

Arcane

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Mage

2.5 secLong Range

Blasts the target with energy, dealing 1 Arcane damage.

Arcane Blast

Tooltip

Blasts the target with energy, dealing 1 Arcane damage. Generates an Arcane Charge.

Arcane Blast's damage is increased by 50% per Arcane Charge, and its mana cost is increased by 150% per Arcane Charge.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 1. It scales with 0.9 times spell power.
  2. Effect 2 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64). It triggers Arcane Charge.

What it does

Arcane Blast is an Arcane spell with a 2.5 sec cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Arcane damage (base value 1). It also casts Arcane Charge.

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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast time2.5 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 1
Spell power coefficient: 0.9
Effect #2Trigger Spell (64)
Trigger spell: Arcane Charge

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 #88084. 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
#51797subtext: Rank 1; cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#51830cast time: instant; effect types: Knock Back, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#56969difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#58462duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#59257duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#59909cast time: instant; effect types: Knock Back, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#65791difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#78832cast time: 1 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#101816different tooltip textA variant record
#102442used by: Cast by Arcane Blast; cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#111271school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#114683different tooltip textA 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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