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)
Tidal Wave

Spell

Tidal Wave

Nature

Advertisement

2 secLong Range

Summons a violent typhoon that deals 195000 to 205000 Nature to enemies with which it collides.

Tidal Wave

Tooltip

Summons a violent typhoon that deals 195000 to 205000 Nature to enemies with which it collides.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

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

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 148519. Its area radius is 40 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 195000. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 40 yards.

What it does

Tidal Wave is a Nature spell with a 2 sec cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 195000) in a 40 yard radius.

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

SchoolNature
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast time2 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Value: 148519
Radius: 40 yards
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 195000
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 40 yards

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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 44 separate Spell records named "Tidal Wave". This page is record #148520. 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
#147820cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#148519cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#148522effect types: Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#149187effect types: Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#149188cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#176301effect types: noneA different effect setup
#192753effect types: noneA different effect setup
#192791effect types: noneA different effect setup
#192792effect types: noneA different effect setup
#192793used by: Cast by Tidal Wave; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#192797used by: Cast by Tidal Wave; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#192798used by: Cast by Tidal Wave; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts

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 Tidal Wave at Wowhead (opens Wowhead in a new tab)