Skip to content
MoP ClassicMists of Pandaria 5.5 · progression realms · one cross-faction auction house per realmAlso on WoW Forever · Classic Era · The Burning Crusade · Wrath of the Lich King · Retail (Midnight)
Fireball

Spell

Fireball

Fire

Advertisement

3 secAnywhere - Unlimited

Inflicts Fire damage to an enemy.

Fireball

Tooltip

Inflicts Fire damage to an enemy.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 99. It scales with 1 times spell power.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 77, which the datamine does not name.

What it does

Fireball is a Fire spell with a 3 sec cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 99).

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

SchoolFire
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast time3 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 99
Spell power coefficient: 1
Effect #2Effect 77

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 273 separate Spell records named "Fireball". This page is record #33793. 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
#30943cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#30967cast time: 5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#31262cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#31620effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#32363difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 1 sec; effect types: School DamageA per-difficulty version
#32414effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#32491no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#33417effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#33794no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#34083effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#34348cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#34653cast time: instant; duration: 15 sec; effect types: School Damage, Create Area EffectA 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.

Comments

Read player comments on Fireball at Wowhead (opens Wowhead in a new tab)