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Arcane Explosion

Spell

Arcane Explosion

Arcane

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Mage

Instant castSelf Only

Causes an explosion of arcane magic around the caster, causing 50000 Arcane damage to all targets.

Arcane Explosion

Tooltip

Causes an explosion of arcane magic around the caster, causing 50000 Arcane damage to all targets.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 0.8 sec global cooldown.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 50000. Its area radius is 10 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 30.

What it does

Arcane Explosion is an Arcane spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Arcane damage (base value 50000) in a 10 yard radius.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70531. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolArcane
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown0.8 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 50000
Radius: 10 yards
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Value: 30

Raw client values from the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70531. 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 106 separate Spell records named "Arcane Explosion". This page is record #145451. 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
#91623effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#93723cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#98277used by: Cast by Bomb Explosion Pulse; school: Physical; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#107111cast time: 1 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#128508school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#139418effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#139914cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#140364cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#148460effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#165717effect types: noneA different effect setup
#180407effect types: noneA different effect setup
#191746effect types: noneA 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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