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Freezing Trap

Spell

Freezing Trap

Physical

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Hunter

Instant cast30 sec cooldownLong Range

Hurls a frost trap to the target location that incapacitates the first enemy that approaches for 1 min.

Freezing Trap

Tooltip

Hurls a frost trap to the target location that incapacitates the first enemy that approaches for 1 min. Damage will break the effect. Limit 1. Trap will exist for 1 min.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is Trigger Missile (effect type 32). Its area radius is 3 yards. It triggers Freezing Trap.

What it does

Freezing Trap is a spell with an instant cast, a range of 40 yards and a 30 sec cooldown. When cast it launches a missile in a 3 yard radius. It also casts Freezing Trap (record #321165).

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

SchoolPhysical
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown30 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1Trigger Missile (32)
Radius: 3 yards
Trigger spell: Freezing Trap

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 50 separate Spell records named "Freezing Trap". This page is record #321164. 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
#240571used by: Cast by Freezing Trap; duration: 1 min; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#240572different tooltip textA variant record
#240574school: Frost; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#278463cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#278464no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#278466used by: Cast by Freezing Trap; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA helper record another spell casts
#278468school: Frost; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#321159effect types: Learn Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#321165used by: Cast by Freezing Trap; duration: 1 min; effect types: Summon; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#321177school: Frost; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#361135subtext: Utility; used by: Cast by Freezing Trap; duration: 1 min; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#361136subtext: Utility; different tooltip textA different rank or variant

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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