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Frostbolt Volley

Spell

Frostbolt Volley

Frost

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Instant castLong Range

Sends shards of ice at nearby enemies, inflicting 8 Frost damage and applying.

Frostbolt Volley

Tooltip

Sends shards of ice at nearby enemies, inflicting 8 Frost damage and applying.

How it works

Frostbolt Volley is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 8.
  2. Effect 2 is Trigger Missile (effect type 32). It triggers Chilled.

What it does

Frostbolt Volley is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 8) and launches a missile. It also casts Chilled.

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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 8
Effect #2Trigger Missile (32)
Trigger spell: Chilled

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 34 separate Spell records named "Frostbolt Volley". This page is record #333624. 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
#176273cast time: 2 sec; duration: 7 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#269770cast time: 2 sec; duration: 7 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#270089cast time: 2 sec; duration: 7 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#277137difficulty rows: Mythic; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#322493effect values: 12, 0 (this record: 8, 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#328667cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#333623journal encounter: Amarth, The Harvester; cast time: 3.5 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#340794cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#351174cast time: 2 sec; duration: 7 sec; effect types: effect 165, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#405361cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#405362used by: Cast by Frostbolt Volley; duration: 15 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#457334cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply AuraA 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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