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Fireball

Spell

Fireball

Fire

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3 secLong Range

Inflicts Fire damage to an enemy.

Fireball

Tooltip

Inflicts Fire damage to an enemy.

How it works

Each cast of Fireball costs 110 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 360.5. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Fireball is a Fire spell with a 3 sec cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 360.5).

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
Cost110 Mana
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast time3 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 360.5
Spell power coefficient: 1

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 #20808. 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
#20420cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 25.15 (this record: 360.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#20678cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 344.5 (this record: 360.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#20692cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 275.5 (this record: 360.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#20714cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 1044 (this record: 360.5)Different tuning
#20793effect values: 341 (this record: 360.5)Different tuning
#20797effect values: 341 (this record: 360.5)Different tuning
#20811no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#20815effect values: 385.5 (this record: 360.5)Different tuning
#20823effect values: 416.5 (this record: 360.5)Different tuning
#21072effect values: 385.5 (this record: 360.5)Different tuning
#21159used by: Cast by Sulfuron Hammer; cast time: instant; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#21162cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: School Damage, 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
Effect rows sighted1 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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