Skip to content
Howling Blast

Spell

Howling Blast

Frost

Advertisement

Death Knight

1.5 secTwenty yards

Blast the target with a frigid wind dealing Frost damage to all enemies within 10 yards.

Howling Blast

Tooltip

Blast the target with a frigid wind dealing Frost damage to all enemies within 10 yards. Deals triple damage to Frozen targets.

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 Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 50.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 50. Its area radius is 10 yards.

What it does

Howling Blast is a Frost spell with a 1.5 sec cast and a range of 20 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 50) 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 time1.5 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Value: 50
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 50
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 #315937. 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; 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
#79896effect values: 150, 147 (this record: 50, 50)Different tuning
#107116effect values: 150, 147 (this record: 50, 50)Different tuning
#165740effect values: 150, 147 (this record: 50, 50)Different tuning
#172750cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#237680cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#283498cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, Energize; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#283501cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#310386school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#314864duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#316800subtext: Rank 2; school: Physical; cast time: instant; 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.

Comments

Read player comments on Howling Blast at Wowhead (opens Wowhead in a new tab)