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Glacial Assault

Spell

Glacial Assault

Frost

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Mage

Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Frost spell for Mages.

Glacial Assault

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its area radius is 8 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). It triggers Glacial Assault.

What it does

Glacial Assault is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage in an 8 yard radius. It also casts Glacial Assault (record #279854).

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)
Radius: 8 yards
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Trigger spell: Glacial Assault

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 6 separate Spell records named "Glacial Assault". This page is record #279856. 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
#279854used by: Cast by Glacial Assault; school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#279855used by: Cast by Glacial Assault; school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#378947used by: Talent: Mage; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different owner
#379024duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#379029different tooltip textA variant record

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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