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Arcane Blast

Spell

Arcane Blast

Arcane

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Instant castLong Range

Blasts an enemy with Arcane magic, inflicting normal damage plus 24 and knocking the enemy back.

Arcane Blast

Tooltip

Blasts an enemy with Arcane magic, inflicting normal damage plus 24 and knocking the enemy back.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 100.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 24.

What it does

Arcane Blast is an Arcane spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it has a Knock Back effect and deals Arcane damage (base value 24).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the current retail game build. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolArcane
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Knock Back (98)
Value: 100
Misc value: 150
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 24

Raw client values from the current retail game build. 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 100 separate Spell records named "Arcane Blast". This page is record #139910. 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
#102442used by: Cast by Arcane Blast; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#111271school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#114683cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#135503cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#135538cast time: 3 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#145434cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#164307cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#167008cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#169825cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#169841cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#170035cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#174442cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage; 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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