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Arcane Orb

Spell

Arcane Orb

Physical

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2 secThree Hundred Yards

Creates an orb of energy, inflicting 1.58331 Arcane damage to any players it touches.

Arcane Orb

Tooltip

Creates an orb of energy, inflicting 1.58331 Arcane damage to any players it touches.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3).
  2. Effect 2 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).

What it does

Arcane Orb is a spell with a 2 sec cast, a range of 300 yards and effects that last 15 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect 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

SchoolPhysical
Range300 yards (Three Hundred Yards)
Cast time2 sec
Duration15 sec
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Effect #2Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 3845

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 66 separate Spell records named "Arcane Orb". This page is record #180819. 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
#153626used by: Talent: Mage; school: Arcane; cast time: instant; duration: 2.5 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, Energize, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different owner
#153640school: Arcane; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Energize, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#167018school: Arcane; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#170040school: Arcane; cast time: instant; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#170077school: Arcane; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#180818school: Arcane; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#188737cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: effect 139, Quest Complete, effect 139, effect 139A different effect setup
#204236school: Arcane; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % DamageA different effect setup
#204238school: Arcane; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#209852school: Arcane; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#209853school: Arcane; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 6 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#213316used by: Cast by Arcane Orb; school: Frost; cast time: instant; duration: 150 sec; effect types: SummonA helper record another spell casts

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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