Skip to content
Biting Cold

Spell

Biting Cold

Frost

Advertisement

Instant castSelf Only

Deals increasing periodic damage to stationary enemies.

Biting Cold

Tooltip

Deals increasing periodic damage to stationary enemies. Movement diminishes this effect.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2).

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.

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)

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 #62188. 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
#62038school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: effect 129A different effect setup
#62039journal encounter: Hodir; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different caster
#136917cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 25.62 (this record: 0); 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: 0); 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

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.

Comments

Read player comments on Biting Cold at Wowhead (opens Wowhead in a new tab)