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Crashing Wave

Spell

Crashing Wave

Nature

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Instant castSelf Only

The caster summons a crashing wave and sends it flying forward.

Crashing Wave

Tooltip

The caster summons a crashing wave and sends it flying forward. Enemies that collide with the wave are knocked back and suffer 21.4635 Nature damage.

How it works

Crashing Wave is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 21.4635. Its area radius is 4 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 100. Its area radius is 4 yards.

What it does

Crashing Wave is a Nature spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 21.4635) in a 4 yard radius and has a Knock Back effect in a 4 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

SchoolNature
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 21.4635
Radius: 4 yards
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 100
Misc value: 100
Radius: 4 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 19 separate Spell records named "Crashing Wave". This page is record #257890. 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
#78802school: Frost; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Dummy, School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#79539school: Frost; effect types: Dummy, School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#191900school: Physical; cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 0.8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Trigger Spell, Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#191902used by: Cast by Crashing Wave; school: Physical; effect types: effect 149A helper record another spell casts
#191919journal encounter: Warlord Parjesh; school: Frost; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#232827difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic, Looking For Raid; journal encounter: Mistress Sassz'ine; school: Frost; cast time: 4 sec; effect values: 391.74, 150 (this record: 21.46, 100); different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#236549school: Frost; effect types: Dummy, School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#240759difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic, Looking For Raid; school: Physical; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA per-difficulty version
#257885duration: 5 sec; effect types: Summon; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#257887school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#276283cast time: 3 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#276289duration: 3 sec; effect types: 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.

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