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Biting Cold

Spell

Biting Cold

Frost

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Instant castSelf Only

Altairus' presence chills the air around him, inflicting 5.625 Frost damage to all players every 3 sec.

Biting Cold

Tooltip

Altairus' presence chills the air around him, inflicting 5.625 Frost damage to all players every 3 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 5.625. Its area radius is 100 yards.

What it does

Biting Cold is a Frost spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 5.625) in a 100 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

SchoolFrost
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 5.625
Radius: 100 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?

Biting Cold appears in: 1 boss encounter and 1 spell that casts it.

Boss encounters

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 16 separate Spell records named "Biting Cold". This page is record #413331. 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; effect values: 25.62 (this record: 5.62); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#136991difficulty rows: 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic), Looking For Raid; used by: Cast by Biting Cold; effect values: 31.35 (this record: 5.62); different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#136992duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#137579duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#137580used by: Cast by Biting Cold; school: Physical; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#166057school: Physical; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#334678school: Physical; effect types: Dummy, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#356666cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#356667duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#356668school: Physical; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#377056used by: Talent: Death Knight; school: Physical; effect types: Dummy, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different owner
#413330school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA 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.

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