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Howling Blast

Spell

Howling Blast

Frost

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1.5 secTwenty yards

Blasts a cone in front of the caster for 40 Frost damage.

Howling Blast

Tooltip

Blasts a cone in front of the caster for 40 Frost damage. Victims have their movement speed slowed by 30% for 10 sec.

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 Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 33. Its base value is -30. Its area radius is 60 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 40. Its area radius is 60 yards.

What it does

Howling Blast is a Frost spell with a 1.5 sec cast, a range of 20 yards and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it applies an aura in a 60 yard radius and deals Frost damage (base value 40) in a 60 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 time1.5 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration10 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 33
Value: -30
Radius: 60 yards
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 40
Radius: 60 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 #314864. 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; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#61066cast time: instant; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#79896duration: none; effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#107116duration: none; effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#165740duration: none; effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#172750cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#237680cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#283498cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Energize; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#283501cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#310386school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#315937duration: none; effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#316800subtext: Rank 2; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: none; 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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