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Flamestrike

Spell

Flamestrike

Fire

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Instant castSixty yards

Calls down a pillar of flame, burning all enemies in a selected area and inflicting Fire damage every 2 sec for 12 sec.

Flamestrike

Tooltip

Calls down a pillar of flame, burning all enemies in a selected area and inflicting Fire damage every 2 sec for 12 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).

What it does

Flamestrike is a Fire spell with an instant cast, a range of 60 yards and effects that last 12 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect effect.

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
Range60 yards (Sixty yards)
Cast timeInstant
Duration12 sec
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 17492

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 85 separate Spell records named "Flamestrike". This page is record #304333. 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
#203980duration: 4 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#217916cast time: 4 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#220675duration: 4 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura, Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#236164cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#279147cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#284500school: Arcane; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#304335duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#318184cast time: 3 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#318185duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#330347cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#348605cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: School Damage, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#348607duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA 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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