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Flame Spike

Spell

Flame Spike

Fire

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3 sec30 sec cooldownMedium Range

Calls down a pillar of flame, burning all enemies in a selected area for Fire damage and an additional damage every 3 sec.

Flame Spike

Tooltip

Calls down a pillar of flame, burning all enemies in a selected area for Fire damage and an additional damage every 3 sec. for 9 sec.

How it works

Each cast of Flame Spike costs 153 Mana. It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

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

  1. Effect 1 is Weapon % Damage (effect type 31). Its base value is 100. Its area radius is 5 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Persistent Area Aura (effect type 27). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 10 per tick. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 5 yards. It ticks every 3 sec, 3 times over the full 9 sec (30 base in total).

What it does

Flame Spike is a Fire spell with a 3 sec cast, a range of 30 yards, a 30 sec cooldown and effects that last 9 sec. When cast it deals a percentage of weapon damage (base value 100) in a 5 yard radius and leaves a persistent area effect on the ground in a 5 yard radius every 3 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
Cost153 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time3 sec
Cooldown30 sec
Global cooldownNone
Duration9 sec
Effect #1Weapon % Damage (31)
Value: 100
Radius: 5 yards
Effect #2Persistent Area Aura (27)
Aura type id 3
Value: 10
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 5 yards
Period: every 3 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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 5 separate Spell records named "Flame Spike". This page is record #8814. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#6725effect types: School Damage, Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#56091cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Energize; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#446242cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, effect 144; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#454535duration: none; effect types: Dummy; 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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70532, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted2 effect rows in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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