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Howling Blizzard

Spell

Howling Blizzard

Frost

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

When depleted of mana, Kel'Thuzad summons a blizzard that inflicts 4 Frost damage every 2 sec.

Howling Blizzard

Tooltip

When depleted of mana, Kel'Thuzad summons a blizzard that inflicts 4 Frost damage every 2 sec. This effect stacks.

Also, ice patches form. Standing in an ice patch inflicts 33.5324 Frost damage every 1 sec.

These patches grow over 20 sec before exploding, inflicting 120 Frost damage to enemies.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 120. Its area radius is 8 yards.

What it does

Howling Blizzard is a Frost spell with an instant cast and an unlimited range. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 120) in an 8 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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 120
Radius: 8 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 12 separate Spell records named "Howling Blizzard". This page is record #362893. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#312676school: Fire; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#354198cast time: 3 sec; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#354206journal encounter: Kel'Thuzad; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different caster
#354208difficulty rows: Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; duration: 10 min; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#354212different tooltip textA variant record
#354529duration: 10 min; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#359397effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#362494journal encounter: Kel'Thuzad; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different caster
#362495used by: Cast by Howling Blizzard; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#362499used by: Cast by Howling Blizzard; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#362898difficulty rows: Heroic, Mythic, Looking For Raid; duration: 10 min; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA per-difficulty version

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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