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Howling Blast

Spell

Howling Blast

Frost

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Instant castTwenty yards

Blast the target with a frigid wind dealing Frost damage to all enemies.

Howling Blast

Tooltip

Blast the target with a frigid wind dealing Frost damage to all enemies.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 500. Its area radius is 10 yards.

What it does

Howling Blast is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 20 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 500) in a 10 yard radius.

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
Range20 yards (Twenty yards)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 500
Radius: 10 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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 15 separate Spell records named "Howling Blast". This page is record #172750. 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
#49184used by: Talent: Death Knight; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA different owner
#53536effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#61061used by: Cast by Howling Blast; effect values: 13.47 (this record: 500); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#61066duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#79896cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#107116cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#165740cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#237680effect values: 0 (this record: 500); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#283498effect types: School Damage, Energize; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#283501effect values: 0.45 (this record: 500); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#310386school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#314864cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, School Damage; different tooltip textA 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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