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Explosive Trap

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Explosive Trap

Fire

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1 secSelf Only

Place a fire trap that explodes when an enemy approaches, causing Fire damage and burning all enemies for additional Fire damage over 10 sec to all within 10 yards.

Explosive Trap

Tooltip

Place a fire trap that explodes when an enemy approaches, causing Fire damage and burning all enemies for additional Fire damage over 10 sec to all within 10 yards. Trap will exist for 30 sec.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is Summon Object (effect type 50). Its area radius is 2 yards.

What it does

Explosive Trap is a Fire spell with a 1 sec cast, no range (it targets the caster) and effects that last 30 sec. When cast it summons an object in a 2 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

SchoolFire
RangeSelf Only
Cast time1 sec
Global cooldown1 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration30 sec
Effect #1Summon Object (50)
Misc value: 214829
Radius: 2 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 22 separate Spell records named "Explosive Trap". This page is record #128953. 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
#43444cast time: instant; duration: 1 min; effect types: Summon Object; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#80596cast time: instantA variant record
#140794school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#140795cast time: instant; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#140798used by: Cast by Explosive Trap; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#176734school: Physical; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#176739used by: Cast by Explosive Trap; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Create Area EffectA helper record another spell casts
#176745cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#176748school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#176749cast time: instant; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#191433cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#231007school: Physical; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 45 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; 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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