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Fireball

Spell

Fireball

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3 secLong Range

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.

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 147).

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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast time3 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 147
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 #34083. 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
#31262cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 24.81 (this record: 147); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#31620effect values: 10.76 (this record: 147)Different tuning
#32363cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 15 (this record: 147); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#32414effect values: 597 (this record: 147)Different tuning
#32491effect types: School Damage, effect 77A different effect setup
#33417effect values: 1196.5 (this record: 147)Different tuning
#33793effect types: School Damage, effect 77A different effect setup
#33794effect types: School Damage, effect 77A different effect setup
#34348cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 197 (this record: 147)Different tuning
#34653cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, effect 77A different effect setup
#36711cast time: instant; effect values: 18.6 (this record: 147)Different tuning
#36805cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 227.61 (this record: 147)Different 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.

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