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Blizzard

Spell

Blizzard

Frost

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Mage

Instant castMedium Range

Ice shards pelt the target area doing 12.8935 Frost damage over 8 sec.

Blizzard

Tooltip

Ice shards pelt the target area doing 12.8935 Frost damage over 8 sec.

How it works

Each cast of Blizzard costs 1400 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is Persistent Area Aura (effect type 27). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 1.6117 per tick. It scales with 0.042 times spell power. Its area radius is 8 yards. It ticks every 1 sec, 8 times over the full 8 sec (12.89 base in total).

What it does

Blizzard is a Frost spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 8 sec. When cast it leaves a persistent area effect on the ground in an 8 yard radius every 1 sec.

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
Cost1400 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration8 sec
Effect #1Persistent Area Aura (27)
Aura type id 3
Value: 1.6117
Spell power coefficient: 0.042
Radius: 8 yards
Period: every 1 sec

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 146 separate Spell records named "Blizzard". This page is record #27618. 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
#21096cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect values: 12 (this record: 1.61); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#21367cast time: 1 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect values: 607.5 (this record: 1.61); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#25019duration: 10 sec; effect values: 12 (this record: 1.61); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#26607duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura, Persistent Area AuraA different effect setup
#29458school: Physical; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect values: 1.5 (this record: 1.61)Different tuning
#29951used by: Cast by Circular Blizzard; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura, Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#30093cast time: 2 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect values: 4.88 (this record: 1.61); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#31266cast time: 1 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura, Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#31581duration: 10 sec; effect values: 5.87 (this record: 1.61); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#33418cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect values: 35.35 (this record: 1.61); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#33624cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect values: 24 (this record: 1.61); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#33634cast time: 1 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect values: 4.5 (this record: 1.61); different tooltip textDifferent tuning

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 1.60.1.70450, 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 sighted1 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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