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Fireball

Spell

Fireball

Fire

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Instant castLong Range

Inflicts Fire damage to an enemy.

Fireball

Tooltip

Inflicts Fire damage to an enemy.

How it works

Each cast of Fireball costs 90 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 36.1569. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Fireball is a Fire spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 36.1569).

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
Cost90 Mana
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 36.1569
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 #38641. 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
#36711effect values: 18.6 (this record: 36.16)Different tuning
#36805cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 227.61 (this record: 36.16)Different tuning
#36920effect types: School Damage, effect 77A different effect setup
#36971cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 80.62 (this record: 36.16)Different tuning
#37111cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 14.88 (this record: 36.16)Different tuning
#37329cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 18.6 (this record: 36.16)Different tuning
#37463effect types: effect 165; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#38824no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#39267cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 1797 (this record: 36.16)Different tuning
#40554cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 15.5 (this record: 36.16)Different tuning
#40598journal encounter: Illidan Stormrage; cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 37.21 (this record: 36.16); different tooltip textA different caster
#40877cast time: 2 sec; duration: 3 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.

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