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Fireball

Spell

Fireball

Fire

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Warrior

Instant castSelf Only

Fire spell for Warriors.

Fireball

How it works

Each cast of Fireball costs 400 Mana.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 15. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 20 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 5 per tick. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 30 yards. It ticks every 2 sec, 4 times over the full 8 sec (20 base in total).

What it does

Fireball is a Fire spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and effects that last 8 sec. When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 15) in a 20 yard radius and applies an aura in a 30 yard radius 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
Cost400 Mana
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Duration8 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 15
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 20 yards
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 5
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 30 yards
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 #23411. 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
#20811cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#20815cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#20823cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#21072cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#21159used by: Cast by Sulfuron Hammer; effect values: 0, 0 (this record: 15, 5); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#21162cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect values: 0, 0 (this record: 15, 5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#21402cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#21549cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#22088cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#23024duration: none; effect types: Dummy, DummyA different effect setup
#24374cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#24611cast time: 0.5 sec; duration: 9 sec; effect values: 5.59, 0.47 (this record: 15, 5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning

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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