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Glacial Shards

Spell

Glacial Shards

Frost

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Instant castSuper Long

Coming into contact with a Glacial Shard inflicts 13.9939 Frost damage and freezes the target in a block of ice.

Glacial Shards

Tooltip

Coming into contact with a Glacial Shard inflicts 13.9939 Frost damage and freezes the target in a block of ice.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 13.9939.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 140, which the datamine does not name. It triggers Frozen Solid.

What it does

Glacial Shards is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 150 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 13.9939). It also casts Frozen Solid.

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
Range150 yards (Super Long)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 13.9939
Effect #2Effect 140
Trigger spell: Frozen Solid

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?

Glacial Shards appears in: 1 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 5 separate Spell records named "Glacial Shards". This page is record #288325. 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
#288324school: Holy; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#303779school: Nature; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#303781effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#303782used by: Cast by Glacial Shards; effect types: School DamageA helper record another spell casts

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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