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Frostscythe

Spell

Frostscythe

Frost

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Death Knight

Instant castEight yards

A sweeping attack that strikes all enemies in front of you for (48% of Attack Power) Frost damage.

Frostscythe

Tooltip

A sweeping attack that strikes all enemies in front of you for (48% of Attack Power) Frost damage. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Consumes Killing Machine to have its critical strikes deal 4 times the normal damage.

How it works

Each cast of Frostscythe costs 2 Runes. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

Frostscythe is built from 6 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 1000. Its area radius is 8 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 0.48 times attack power. Its area radius is 8 yards.
  3. Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 4. Its area radius is 8 yards.
  4. Effect 4 is Energize (effect type 30). Its base value is 200.
  5. Effect 5 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 5.
  6. Effect 6 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 3. Its area radius is 8 yards.

What it does

Frostscythe is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 8 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage in an 8 yard radius and restores a resource (base value 200).

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
Cost2 Runes
Range8 yards (Eight yards)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Value: 1000
Radius: 8 yards
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Attack power coefficient: 0.48
Radius: 8 yards
Effect #3Dummy (3)
Value: 4
Radius: 8 yards
Effect #4Energize (30)
Value: 200
Misc value: 6
Effect #5Dummy (3)
Value: 5
Effect #6Dummy (3)
Value: 3
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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Frostscythe appears in: 3 talents.

Talents

  • Frostscythe for Death Knight (Blood, Frost, Unholy)Talent
  • Frostscythe (a talent definition no current talent tree places)
    Hero talent tree: Red [DNT]Talent
  • Frostscythe (a talent definition no current talent tree places)Talent

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

Build history

this spell Changelog

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

  • Effect: Attack power coefficient changed from 0.4 to 0.48 (patch 12.1.0)

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 8 separate Spell records named "Frostscythe". This page is record #207230. 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
#46643school: Physical; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#283556effect types: Dummy, School Damage, Dummy, Energize; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#372331subtext: Main Hand; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#1230930school: Physical; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1230933school: Physical; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1237388effect values: 1000, 0, 3, 200 (this record: 1000, 0, 4, 200); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#1237652duration: 0.8 sec; effect types: 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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