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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 11.7945 and knocking the enemy back.

Arcane Blast

Tooltip

Blasts an enemy with Arcane magic, inflicting normal damage plus 11.7945 and knocking the enemy back.

How it works

Each cast of Arcane Blast costs 300 Mana.

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 11.7945. It scales with 1 times spell power.

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 11.7945).

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
Cost300 Mana
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Knock Back (98)
Value: 100
Misc value: 200
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 11.7945
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 #51830. 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
#38344effect types: Knock Back, Weapon % DamageA different effect setup
#38538effect values: 35, 44.79 (this record: 100, 11.79)Different tuning
#38881cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#40837effect values: 50, 3.51 (this record: 100, 11.79)Different tuning
#40881effect values: 50, 300 (this record: 100, 11.79)Different tuning
#49198effect values: 110, 13.2 (this record: 100, 11.79)Different tuning
#50545effect values: 100, 147 (this record: 100, 11.79)Different tuning
#51797subtext: Rank 1; cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#56969cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#58462cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#59257cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#59909effect values: 110, 22.27 (this record: 100, 11.79)Different tuning

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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