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Explosive Trap

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Explosive Trap

Fire

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Hurls a fire trap to the target location that explodes when an enemy approaches, causing (54.1% of Attack Power) Fire damage and burning all enemies for (54.1% of Attack Power) additional Fire damage...

Explosive Trap

Tooltip

Hurls a fire trap to the target location that explodes when an enemy approaches, causing (54.1% of Attack Power) Fire damage and burning all enemies for (54.1% of Attack Power) additional Fire damage over 10 sec. Trap will exist for 1 min.

How it works

Explosive Trap is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 0.5405 times attack power. Its area radius is 8 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. It scales with 0.0541 times attack power. Its area radius is 8 yards. It ticks every 1 sec, 10 times over the full 10 sec.

What it does

Explosive Trap is a Fire spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it deals Fire damage in an 8 yard radius and applies an aura 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

SchoolFire
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Duration10 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Attack power coefficient: 0.5405
Radius: 8 yards
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Attack power coefficient: 0.0541
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 22 separate Spell records named "Explosive Trap". This page is record #13812. 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
#13813subtext: Fire Trap; used by: Cast by Explosive Trap; duration: 1 min; effect types: Create Area EffectA different rank or variant
#43444duration: 1 min; effect types: Summon Object; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#80596duration: 30 sec; effect types: Summon Object; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#128953cast time: 1 sec; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Summon Object; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#140794school: Physical; effect types: Create Area Effect, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#140795duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#140798used by: Cast by Explosive Trap; 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; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA helper record another spell casts
#176745duration: 6 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#176748school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#176749duration: 12 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 asExplosive Trap Effect
Effect rows sighted2 effect rows in the beta client's data
Level data sightedBase level 34 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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