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Frost Spike

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Frost Spike

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Instant castThree Hundred Yards

A frost spike erupts fom the ground, dealing 40.8886 Frost damage and knocking enemy targets into the air.

Frost Spike

Tooltip

A frost spike erupts fom the ground, dealing 40.8886 Frost damage and knocking enemy targets into the air.

How it works

Frost Spike is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 40.8886. Its area radius is 4 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 100. Its area radius is 4 yards.
  3. Effect 3 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 7. Its area radius is 4 yards.

What it does

Frost Spike is a Frost spell with an instant cast, a range of 300 yards and effects that last 2 sec. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 40.8886) in a 4 yard radius, has a Knock Back effect in a 4 yard radius and applies an aura in a 4 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
Range300 yards (Three Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Duration2 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 40.8886
Radius: 4 yards
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 100
Misc value: 25
Radius: 4 yards
Effect #3Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Value: 7
Radius: 4 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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Frost Spike appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 9 separate Spell records named "Frost Spike". This page is record #139180. 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
#139174difficulty rows: 25 Player (Heroic); school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, Dummy, DummyA per-difficulty version
#139177duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#139181school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: effect 140A different effect setup
#283889duration: none; effect types: effect 140; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#283891duration: 10 sec; effect types: SummonA different effect setup
#283892school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect values: 30, 250, 0 (this record: 40.89, 100, 7); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#372314duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#372315journal encounter: The Primal Council; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster

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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