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Frostbane

Spell

Frostbane

Frost

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Death Knight

Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Start a frozen onslaught that strikes twice, unleashing the chilling essence of winter, dealing (72% of Attack Power) Frost damage to all enemies caught in its wake with each strike.

Frostbane

Tooltip

Start a frozen onslaught that strikes twice, unleashing the chilling essence of winter, dealing (72% of Attack Power) Frost damage to all enemies caught in its wake with each strike.

Each enemy struck reduces the damage dealt to the next foe by 5%, down to 40%.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 0.7199 times attack power.

What it does

Frostbane is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage.

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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Attack power coefficient: 0.7199

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.

Build history

this spell Changelog

Changes between the retail game builds our datamine has recorded, newest first.

  • Effect: Attack power coefficient changed from 0.5999 to 0.7199 (patch 12.1.0)
  • Effect: Attack power coefficient changed from 0.857 to 0.5999 (patch 12.1.0)

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 10 separate Spell records named "Frostbane". This page is record #1228443. 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
#455993used by: Talent: Death Knight; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different owner
#1228433duration: 0.8 sec; effect types: Dummy, effect 164, Create Area Effect, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1228436used by: Cast by Frostbane; duration: 0.8 sec; effect types: effect 203, Create Area Effect, Trigger SpellA helper record another spell casts
#1228440used by: Cast by Frostbane; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#1229279used by: Cast by Frostbane; duration: 0.8 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#1229310used by: Cast by Frostbane; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#1229311duration: 30 sec; effect types: Trigger Spell, Apply Aura, Trigger SpellA different effect setup
#1229520used by: Cast by Frostbane; duration: 1.2 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#1264028duration: 0.8 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA 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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