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Arcane Missiles

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Arcane Missiles

Arcane

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Mage

Instant castExtra Long Range

Requires Clearcasting

Arcane Missiles

Tooltip

Requires Clearcasting
Launches waves of Arcane Missiles at the enemy over 2.5 sec, causing a total of Arcane damage.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 1.078 times spell power.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 0.539 times spell power. Its area radius is 12 yards.

What it does

Arcane Missiles is an Arcane spell with an instant cast and a range of 60 yards. When cast it deals Arcane damage and deals Arcane damage in a 12 yard radius.

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
Range60 yards (Extra Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Spell power coefficient: 1.078
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Spell power coefficient: 0.539
Radius: 12 yards

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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Arcane Missiles appears in: 3 spells that cast it.

Spells that cast it

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 130 separate Spell records named "Arcane Missiles". This page is record #7268. 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
#5143used by: Talent: Mage; duration: 2.5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different owner
#15735duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#15736effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#15790duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#15791effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#22272duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#22273effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#29955cast time: 1 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 77, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#29956effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#31742cast time: 0.5 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#31743effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#31751effect types: DummyA 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 1.60.1.70532, 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
Listed asArcane Missile
Effect rows sighted1 effect rows in the beta client's data
Level data sightedBase level 8 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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