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Frost Bolt

Spell

Frost Bolt

Physical

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Instant castSelf Only

Fires a frozen bolt at a random player, inflicting 6 Frost damage every 1 second and applying a stack of to the first target it hits.

Frost Bolt

Tooltip

Fires a frozen bolt at a random player, inflicting 6 Frost damage every 1 second and applying a stack of to the first target it hits. The target is also pinned.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4.
  2. Effect 2 is Spawn (effect type 46).

What it does

Frost Bolt is a spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and an effect that lasts until cancelled. When cast it applies an aura and has a Spawn 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

SchoolPhysical
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
DurationInfinite
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Effect #2Spawn (46)

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 10 separate Spell records named "Frost Bolt". This page is record #295718. 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
#295606cast time: 4 sec; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#295621duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#295702used by: Cast by Frost Bolt; school: Frost; duration: none; effect types: effect 140A helper record another spell casts
#295704difficulty rows: Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; journal encounter: Abyssal Commander Sivara; school: Frost; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Summon, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#303401school: Frost; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#303756school: Frost; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#432151school: Frost; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#442636school: Frost; cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#455058school: Frost; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; 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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