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Chains of Ice

Spell

Chains of Ice

Frost

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Death Knight

Instant cast10-40

Deals 1000 Frost damage and shackles the target with heavy chains, reducing their movement to zero.

Chains of Ice

Tooltip

Deals 1000 Frost damage and shackles the target with heavy chains, reducing their movement to zero. The target regains 5% of their movement each second.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

Chains of Ice is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64).
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 1000.

What it does

Chains of Ice is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 10-40 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 1000).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70631. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolFrost
Range10-40 yards (10-40)
Cast timeInstant
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Trigger Spell (64)
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 1000

Raw client values from the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70631. 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 21 separate Spell records named "Chains of Ice". This page is record #61077. 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
#22745used by: Cast by Chains of Ice; effect types: Power Burn; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#29991duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#39268cast time: 1 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#45524used by: Death Knight; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA different owner
#53534duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#58464duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#65173cast time: 1 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#65174used by: Cast by Chains of Ice; effect types: Power Burn; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#66020duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#72171cast time: 1 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#79899duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#96294duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA 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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