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Fireball

Spell

Fireball

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Mage

1.5 secMedium Range

Hurls a fiery ball that causes (12.3% of Spell Power) Fire damage and an additional Fire damage over 4 sec.

Fireball

Tooltip

Hurls a fiery ball that causes (12.3% of Spell Power) Fire damage and an additional Fire damage over 4 sec.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 0.123 times spell power.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. It ticks every 2 sec, 2 times over the full 4 sec.

What it does

Fireball is a Fire spell with a 1.5 sec cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 4 sec. When cast it deals Fire damage and applies an aura 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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time1.5 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration4 sec
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Spell power coefficient: 0.123
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
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.

How to learn

Items that grant this spell

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 273 separate Spell records named "Fireball". This page is record #49512. 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
#36971cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#37111cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#37329cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#37463cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: effect 165; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#38641cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#38824cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#39267cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#40554cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#40598journal encounter: Illidan Stormrage; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#40877cast time: 2 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect values: 22.33, 9.92 (this record: 0, 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#41383cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#41484cast time: instant; duration: 3 sec; effect values: 86.82, 1.38 (this record: 0, 0); 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.

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