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Gale

Spell

Gale

Frost

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Instant castMedium/Long Range

The caster commands the winds to whip nearby enemies knocking them back and inflicting 1.39939 Frost damage.

Gale

Tooltip

The caster commands the winds to whip nearby enemies knocking them back and inflicting 1.39939 Frost damage. for 12 sec.

In addition, the wind creates waves of water that radiate out from the caster. Contact with the waves knocks the player back and inflicts 2.79878 Frost damage.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 2.7988.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 75.

What it does

Gale is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 2.7988) and has a Knock Back 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

SchoolFrost
Range40 yards (Medium/Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 2.7988
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 75
Misc value: 60

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 "Gale". This page is record #183290. 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
#56861school: Nature; effect types: Dummy, School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#56907school: Nature; effect types: Instakill; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#171398school: Nature; cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 300, 40 (this record: 2.8, 75); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#177460school: Nature; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#183274cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Create Area Effect, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#183277used by: Cast by Gale; effect types: School DamageA helper record another spell casts
#183292duration: 5 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#269926school: Nature; cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 60, 125 (this record: 2.8, 75); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#452221used by: Companions; school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Summon; different tooltip textA different owner

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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