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Meteor Strike

Spell

Meteor Strike

Fire

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Instant castLong Range

A fiery meteor hits the ground, exploding for 27750 to 32250 damage and knocking nearby players backward.

Meteor Strike

Tooltip

A fiery meteor hits the ground, exploding for 27750 to 32250 damage and knocking nearby players backward.

How it works

Meteor Strike is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 27750. Its area radius is 3 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 77, which the datamine does not name.
  3. Effect 3 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 150. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 3 yards.

What it does

Meteor Strike is a Fire spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 27750) in a 3 yard radius and has a Knock Back effect in a 3 yard radius.

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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 27750
Radius: 3 yards
Effect #2Effect 77
Effect #3Knock Back (98)
Value: 150
Spell power coefficient: 1
Misc value: 30
Radius: 3 yards

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 20 separate Spell records named "Meteor Strike". This page is record #98500. 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
#74637cast time: 1 sec; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Dummy, SummonA different effect setup
#74641school: Physical; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#74648difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#74712difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); used by: Cast by Meteor Strike; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#74713school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#74717difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); used by: Cast by Meteor Strike; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#74718school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#98517school: Physical; cast time: 1 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#171017used by: Pet - Infernal; effect types: noneA different owner
#171018used by: Pet - Abyssal; effect types: noneA different owner
#171152effect types: noneA different effect setup
#171154effect 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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