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Blizzard

Frost

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Mage

Instant castTower 100

Ice shards pelt the target area, dealing Frost damage over 12 sec and reducing movement speed by 50% for 3 sec.

Blizzard

Tooltip

Ice shards pelt the target area, dealing Frost damage over 12 sec and reducing movement speed by 50% for 3 sec.

This spell is cast at a selected location

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 0.488 times spell power. Its area radius is 12 yards.

What it does

Blizzard is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage in a 12 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
Range100 yards (Tower 100)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Spell power coefficient: 0.488
Radius: 12 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.

Build history

this spell Changelog

Changes between the retail game builds our datamine has recorded, newest first.

  • Effect: Spell power coefficient changed from 0.4428 to 0.488 (patch 12.1.0)

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 146 separate Spell records named "Blizzard". This page is record #190357. 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
#164428cast time: 2 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#165742cast time: 2 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#173009duration: 8 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura, Persistent Area Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#173010used by: Cast by Blizzard; effect values: 300 (this record: 0); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#183096duration: 8 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura, Persistent Area Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#183097used by: Cast by Blizzard; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#190356used by: Talent: Mage; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Dummy, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different owner
#198525cast time: 2 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#204737used by: Cast by Choking Cloud; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#204739cast time: 3 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#207084cast time: 3 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#207087duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, 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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