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Howling Blast

Spell

Howling Blast

Frost

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Instant cast6 sec cooldownMedium Range

Blast the target with a frigid wind, dealing 0.9 Frost damage to that foe, and 0.45 Frost damage to all other enemies, infecting all targets with Frost Fever.

Howling Blast

Tooltip

Blast the target with a frigid wind, dealing 0.9 Frost damage to that foe, and 0.45 Frost damage to all other enemies, infecting all targets with Frost Fever.

Frost Fever
A disease that deals 10.4 Frost damage over 24 sec and has a chance to grant the Death Knight 4 Runic Power each time it deals damage.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 0.9.
  2. Effect 2 is Energize (effect type 30). Its base value is 10.

What it does

Howling Blast is a Frost spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and a 6 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 0.9) and restores a resource (base value 10).

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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown6 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 0.9
Effect #2Energize (30)
Value: 10
Misc value: 3

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 #283498. 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
#61061used by: Cast by Howling Blast; effect types: School Damage; 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
#172750effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#237680effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#283501effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#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
#315937cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#316800subtext: Rank 2; school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different rank or variant

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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