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Arcane Blast

Spell

Arcane Blast

Arcane

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Blasts an enemy with Arcane magic, inflicting normal damage plus 100 and knocking the enemy back.

Arcane Blast

Tooltip

Blasts an enemy with Arcane magic, inflicting normal damage plus 100 and knocking the enemy back.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 2.7437. It scales with 1 times spell power.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 100. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Arcane Blast is an Arcane spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Arcane damage (base value 2.7437) and has a Knock Back effect.

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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 2.7437
Spell power coefficient: 1
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 100
Spell power coefficient: 1
Misc value: 350

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 #22893. 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 Archeus; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#20883effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#22920effect types: Knock Back, School DamageA different effect setup
#24857effect types: Knock Back, School DamageA 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 DamageA different effect setup
#32935effect types: Knock Back, School DamageA different effect setup
#34793effect types: Knock Back, School DamageA different effect setup
#35314effect types: Knock Back, School DamageA 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 DamageA 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 sighted2 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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