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Arcane Blast

Spell

Arcane Blast

Arcane

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Mage

Instant cast8 sec cooldownMedium Range

Blasts a target for Arcane damage.

Arcane Blast

Tooltip

Blasts a target for Arcane damage.

How it works

Each cast of Arcane Blast costs 80 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2).

What it does

Arcane Blast is an Arcane spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and an 8 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Arcane damage.

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
Cost80 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown8 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 1421
Effect #1School Damage (2)

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.

How to learn

Items that grant this spell

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 100 separate Spell records named "Arcane Blast". This page is record #20883. 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
#10833effect types: Knock Back, Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#18091used by: Cast by ArcheusA helper record another spell casts
#22893effect types: School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#22920effect types: Knock Back, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#24857effect types: Knock Back, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#30451used by: Arcane Mage; cast time: 2.2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Energize; different tooltip textA different owner
#31457effect types: Knock Back, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#32935effect types: Knock Back, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#34793effect types: Knock Back, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#35314effect types: Knock Back, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#35927cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#37126effect types: Knock Back, 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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70338, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted1 effect rows in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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