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Fireball

Spell

Fireball

Fire

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Instant castMedium-Long

Inflicts Fire damage to an enemy.

Fireball

Tooltip

Inflicts Fire damage to an enemy.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 147. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 35 yards.

What it does

Fireball is a Fire spell with an instant cast and a range of 35 yards. When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 147) in a 35 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
Range35 yards (Medium-Long)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 147
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 35 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 273 separate Spell records named "Fireball". This page is record #30534. 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
#29456school: Physical; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#29925cast time: 2 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#29953cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 57.05 (this record: 147); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#30218cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 147); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#30691cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, effect 77A different effect setup
#30943cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 28.53 (this record: 147); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#30967cast time: 5 sec; effect values: 15.85 (this record: 147); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#31262cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 24.81 (this record: 147); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#31620cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 10.76 (this record: 147)Different tuning
#32363cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 15 (this record: 147); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#32414cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 597 (this record: 147)Different tuning
#32491cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, effect 77A 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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