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Frost Blast

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Frost Blast

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Instant castTwo-Hundred Yard Range

Kel'Thuzad hurls a chunk of ice at an enemy, inflicting 300 Frost damage divided evenly among players and inflicts 7 Frost damage every 1 sec for 8 sec.

Frost Blast

Tooltip

Kel'Thuzad hurls a chunk of ice at an enemy, inflicting 300 Frost damage divided evenly among players and inflicts 7 Frost damage every 1 sec for 8 sec.

In addition, this effect applies.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 7 per tick. Its area radius is 8 yards. It ticks every 1 sec, 8 times over the full 8 sec (56 base in total).
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its area radius is 8 yards.

What it does

Frost Blast is a Frost spell with an instant cast, a range of 200 yards and effects that last 8 sec. When cast it applies an aura in an 8 yard radius every 1 sec and applies an aura in an 8 yard radius.

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

SchoolFrost
Range200 yards (Two-Hundred Yard Range)
Cast timeInstant
Duration8 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 7
Radius: 8 yards
Period: every 1 sec
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Radius: 8 yards

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 44 separate Spell records named "Frost Blast". This page is record #357928. 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
#308689used by: Cast by Frost Blast; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#308690duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#338604cast time: 3 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#338612duration: 6 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#348756journal encounter: Kel'Thuzad; school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#348758school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#348759used by: Cast by Frost Blast; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, effect 203A helper record another spell casts
#348760used by: Cast by Frost Blast; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#353000school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#358999school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#362569school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#394676cast time: 4 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; 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.

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