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Biting Cold

Spell

Biting Cold

Frost

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Instant castThree Hundred Yards

The caster afflicts a player with, inflicting 6 Frost damage every 1 sec to the target and any nearby players for 10 sec.

Biting Cold

Tooltip

The caster afflicts a player with, inflicting 6 Frost damage every 1 sec to the target and any nearby players for 10 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 6 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 10 times over the full 10 sec (60 base in total).

What it does

Biting Cold is a Frost spell with an instant cast, a range of 300 yards and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec.

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

SchoolFrost
Range300 yards (Three Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Duration10 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 6
Period: every 1 sec

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 16 separate Spell records named "Biting Cold". This page is record #356667. 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
#136917cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#136991difficulty rows: 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic), Looking For Raid; used by: Cast by Biting Cold; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#136992duration: 30 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 6); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#137579duration: 30 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 6)Different tuning
#137580used by: Cast by Biting Cold; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#166057school: Physical; duration: 8 sec; effect values: 10 (this record: 6); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#334678school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#356666cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 6); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#356668school: Physical; duration: 20 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 6)Different tuning
#377056used by: Talent: Death Knight; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different owner
#413330school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect values: 0 (this record: 6); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#413331journal encounter: Altairus; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster

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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