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Fireball

Spell

Fireball

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Mage

2 secMedium-Long

Hurls a fiery ball that causes Fire damage and an additional damage over 6 sec.

Fireball

Tooltip

Hurls a fiery ball that causes Fire damage and an additional damage over 6 sec.

How it works

Each cast of Fireball costs 45 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2).
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. It ticks every 2 sec, 3 times over the full 6 sec.

What it does

Fireball is a Fire spell with a 2 sec cast, a range of 35 yards and effects that last 6 sec. When cast it deals Fire damage and applies an aura every 2 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
Cost45 Mana
Range35 yards (Medium-Long)
Cast time2 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration6 sec
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Period: every 2 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 273 separate Spell records named "Fireball". This page is record #15662. 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
#13140cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#13375cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#13438no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#15228cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#15536cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#15665cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#16101cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#16413used by: Cast by Firebreather; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#16415duration: 8 secA variant record
#16788cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#17290cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#18082no compared field differsA duplicate client record

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
Effect rows sighted2 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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