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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 19.0049 and knocking the enemy back.

Arcane Blast

Tooltip

Blasts an enemy with Arcane magic, inflicting normal damage plus 19.0049 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 70.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 19.0049. 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 has a Knock Back effect and deals Arcane damage (base value 19.0049).

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 #1Knock Back (98)
Value: 70
Misc value: 350
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 19.0049
Spell power coefficient: 1

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 #24857. 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
#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
#22893effect types: School Damage, Knock BackA different effect setup
#22920effect values: 75, 9 (this record: 70, 19)Different tuning
#30451used by: Arcane Mage; cast time: 2.2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Energize; different tooltip textA different owner
#31457effect values: 35, 36.18 (this record: 70, 19)Different tuning
#32935effect values: 75, 147 (this record: 70, 19)Different tuning
#34793effect values: 175, 147 (this record: 70, 19)Different tuning
#35314effect values: 75, 147 (this record: 70, 19)Different tuning
#35927cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#37126effect values: 175, 41.34 (this record: 70, 19)Different tuning
#38342effect types: Knock Back, Weapon % 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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