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Arcane
Mage
Tooltip
Teleports you forward or until reaching an obstacle, and frees you from all stuns and bonds.
What it does
Blink is an Arcane spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster).
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 facts
SchoolArcane
Cast timeInstant
ClassMage
RangeSelf Only
Spell ID220261Datamined from the current retail game build. Numbers that scale with level or stats are shown at their base value.
Spell Details
| School | Arcane |
|---|---|
| Range | Self Only |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Recovery time | 0.5 sec |
| Global cooldown | 1.5 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Charges | Charge category id 1446 (charge count not in the datamine) |
| Effect #1 | Dummy (3) Radius: 20 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.
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 127 separate Spell records named "Blink". This page is record #220261. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #221223 | used by: Cast by Blink; school: Physical; effect types: effect 96 | A helper record another spell casts |
| #221225 | used by: Cast by Blink; school: Physical; effect types: Dummy, effect 164, effect 164, effect 164 | A helper record another spell casts |
| #225948 | school: Nature; duration: 1 sec; effect types: Leap, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #226005 | school: Nature; duration: 1 sec; effect types: Teleport, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #226062 | school: Shadow; duration: 2 sec; effect types: Teleport, Apply Aura, Dummy; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #226817 | used by: Cast by Blink; school: Physical; effect types: effect 96 | A helper record another spell casts |
| #226818 | used by: Cast by Blink; school: Physical; effect types: effect 96 | A helper record another spell casts |
| #226819 | used by: Cast by Blink; school: Physical; effect types: effect 96 | A helper record another spell casts |
| #226820 | used by: Cast by Blink; school: Physical; effect types: effect 96 | A helper record another spell casts |
| #226950 | school: Physical; effect types: Jump | A different effect setup |
| #227212 | school: Shadow; effect values: 226062 (this record: 0); different tooltip text | Different tuning |
| #230079 | school: Frost; duration: 2 min; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 140 | A 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.