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Blast Wave

Spell

Blast Wave

Fire

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Mage

Instant castSelf Only

Unleashes a wave of flame, inflicting Fire damage to nearby enemies and reducing their movement speed for 6 sec.

Blast Wave

Tooltip

Unleashes a wave of flame, inflicting Fire damage to nearby enemies and reducing their movement speed for 6 sec.

How it works

Blast Wave is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 25.1536. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 45 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 33. Its base value is -50. Its area radius is 45 yards.
  3. Effect 3 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 60. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 45 yards.

What it does

Blast Wave is a Fire spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and effects that last 6 sec. When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 25.1536) in a 45 yard radius, applies an aura in a 45 yard radius and has a Knock Back effect in a 45 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

SchoolFire
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration6 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 25.1536
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 45 yards
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 33
Value: -50
Radius: 45 yards
Effect #3Knock Back (98)
Value: 60
Spell power coefficient: 1
Misc value: 60
Radius: 45 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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 53 separate Spell records named "Blast Wave". This page is record #25049. 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
#15091effect types: School Damage, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#15744cast time: 1 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#16046effect types: School Damage, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#17277used by: Cast by Flaming Leap; effect types: School Damage, Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#20229duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#22424effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#23039cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#23113effect types: School Damage, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#23331duration: 8 sec; effect values: 50.31, -50, 175 (this record: 25.15, -50, 60)Different tuning
#30092duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#30600cast time: 1 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#33061effect types: School Damage, 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.

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
Effect rows sighted3 effect rows 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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