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Detonate

Spell

Detonate

Fire

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Instant castCombat Range

Detonates causing damage in an area.

Detonate

Tooltip

Detonates causing damage in an area.

How it works

Detonate is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 14.7145. Its area radius is 10 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Instakill (effect type 1).
  3. Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3).

What it does

Detonate is a Fire spell with an instant cast and a range of 5 yards. When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 14.7145) in a 10 yard radius and kills the target outright.

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
Range5 yards (Combat Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 14.7145
Radius: 10 yards
Effect #2Instakill (1)
Effect #3Dummy (3)

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 90 separate Spell records named "Detonate". This page is record #11504. 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
#5140school: Physical; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Open Lock; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#20789school: Nature; effect types: Dispel, effect 137; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#29870used by: Cast by Detonate; school: Arcane; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#29876school: Arcane; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#42807effect types: School Damage, effect 86; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#49250school: Physical; duration: 10 sec; effect types: effect 77, SummonA different effect setup
#53272school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#56441effect values: 5.73, 0, 0 (this record: 14.71, 0, 0)Different tuning
#59139school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#62598journal encounter: Freya; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#62937effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#82735school: Physical; duration: 6 sec; effect types: 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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70532, 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
Listed asWalking Bomb Effect
Effect rows sighted3 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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