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Meltdown

Spell

Meltdown

Fire

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Instant castVision Range

Charges a random distant enemy, dealing 100% of current health as damage.

Meltdown

Tooltip

Charges a random distant enemy, dealing 100% of current health as damage.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 100. Its area radius is 100 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 96, which the datamine does not name. Its area radius is 100 yards. It triggers Suicide.

What it does

Meltdown is a Fire spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 100) in a 100 yard radius. It also casts Suicide.

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

SchoolFire
Range100 yards (Vision Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 100
Radius: 100 yards
Effect #2Effect 96
Radius: 100 yards
Trigger spell: Suicide

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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Meltdown 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 23 separate Spell records named "Meltdown". This page is record #98649. 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
#61889journal encounter: The Assembly of Iron; school: Nature; effect types: School Damage, Instakill; different tooltip textA different caster
#68392effect types: School Damage, effect 144; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#98646school: Physical; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#136479school: Nature; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#277986used by: Cast by Blink; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#352589journal encounter: Guardian of the First Ones; effect types: noneA different caster
#363408effect types: noneA different effect setup
#363955effect types: noneA different effect setup
#364035effect types: noneA different effect setup
#364038effect types: noneA different effect setup
#365324effect types: noneA different effect setup
#365325effect 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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