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Flame Bolt

Spell

Flame Bolt

Fire

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Instant castSelf Only

Fires a moving bolt through a target's location that Inflicts massive Fire damage to the first thing in it's path.

Flame Bolt

Tooltip

Fires a moving bolt through a target's location that Inflicts massive Fire damage to the first thing in it's path.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is effect type 165, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 45.5.

What it does

Flame Bolt is a Fire spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster).

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Effect 165
Value: 45.5

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 16 separate Spell records named "Flame Bolt". This page is record #144570. 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
#75540difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; used by: Cast by Flame Bolt; cast time: 1 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#77370duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#144568cast time: 3 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#162351cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#162369school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#219202effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#246923cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#262166cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#289357cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#376063journal encounter: Kurog Grimtotem; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 30 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#377447school: Physical, Shadow; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#383224used by: Cast by Flame Bolt; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts

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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