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Blast Wave

Spell

Blast Wave

Fire

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Mage

Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Causes an explosion around yourself, dealing (54.3% of Spell Power) Fire damage to all enemies, knocking them back, and reducing movement speed by 70% for 6 sec.

Blast Wave

Tooltip

Causes an explosion around yourself, dealing (54.3% of Spell Power) Fire damage to all enemies, knocking them back, and reducing movement speed by 70% for 6 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 50.

What it does

Blast Wave is a Fire spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it has a Knock Back effect. The client files the whole spell under the knockbacked mechanic.

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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
MechanicKnockbacked
Effect #1Knock Back (98)
Value: 50
Misc value: 80

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 #268473. 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
#156446cast time: 4 sec; effect types: School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#157981duration: 6 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#158424used by: Cast by Blast Wave; cast time: 4 sec; effect types: effect 86, effect 86; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#182574duration: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, effect 144; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#194815cast time: 3 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#196148cast time: 3 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#205830school: Physical; duration: 5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#212376duration: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, effect 144; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#268467no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#268474no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#268475no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#270285difficulty rows: Mythic; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version

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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