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Howling Blast

Spell

Howling Blast

Frost

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Death Knight

Instant castMedium Range

Blast the target with a frigid wind, dealing Frost damage and applying Frost Fever to the target.

Howling Blast

Tooltip

Blast the target with a frigid wind, dealing Frost damage and applying Frost Fever to the target.

A disease that deals 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

Each cast of Howling Blast costs 1 Runes. 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). It scales with 0.5068 times attack power. Its area radius is 10 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 15.

What it does

Howling Blast is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage 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
Cost1 Runes
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Attack power coefficient: 0.5068
Radius: 10 yards
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Value: 15

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?

Howling Blast appears in: 1 talent.

Talents

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

Build history

this spell Changelog

Changes between the retail game builds our datamine has recorded, newest first.

  • Effect: Attack power coefficient changed from 0.4407 to 0.5068 (patch 12.1.0)
  • Effect: Base points changed from 0 to 15 (patch 12.1.0)
  • Effect: Attack power coefficient changed from 0.2204 to 0.4407 (patch 12.1.0)

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 15 separate Spell records named "Howling Blast". This page is record #49184. 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
#53536effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#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
#283498effect types: School Damage, Energize; 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

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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