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Arcane Missiles

Spell

Arcane Missiles

Arcane

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Mage

Instant castExtra Long Range

Launches five waves of Arcane Missiles at the enemy over 2 sec, causing 1 Arcane damage per wave.

Arcane Missiles

Tooltip

Launches five waves of Arcane Missiles at the enemy over 2 sec, causing 1 Arcane damage per wave. Generates an Arcane Charge.

Arcane Missiles' damage is increased by 50% per Arcane Charge.

Arcane Missiles has a chance to be activated after each of your damaging spell casts. Limit 2 charges.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 12500.

What it does

Arcane Missiles is an Arcane spell with an instant cast and a range of 60 yards. When cast it deals Arcane damage (base value 12500).

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
Range60 yards (Extra Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 12500
Chain targets: 1

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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Arcane Missiles appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 130 separate Spell records named "Arcane Missiles". This page is record #145435. 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
#139417duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#139672duration: 2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#139678effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#145436duration: 2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#150741effect types: noneA different effect setup
#164304effect types: noneA different effect setup
#164305effect types: noneA different effect setup
#166995effect types: noneA different effect setup
#167002effect types: noneA different effect setup
#167675effect types: noneA different effect setup
#167676effect types: noneA different effect setup
#170666effect 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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