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Howling Winds

Spell

Howling Winds

Frost

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Instant castThree Hundred Yards

Jaina blinks away and conjures a powerful storm, restricting the vision of targets further away.

Howling Winds

Tooltip

Jaina blinks away and conjures a powerful storm, restricting the vision of targets further away.

Additionally, she continually radiates glacial shards outward.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 226. It ticks every 1.5 sec, 400 times over the full 10 min.

What it does

Howling Winds is a Frost spell with an instant cast, a range of 300 yards and effects that last 10 min. When cast it applies an aura every 1.5 sec.

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
Range300 yards (Three Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Duration10 min
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 226
Period: every 1.5 sec

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 16 separate Spell records named "Howling Winds". This page is record #288199. 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
#143937school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Jump to DestinationA different effect setup
#288099school: Physical; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#288169journal encounter: Lady Jaina Proudmoore; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#289861journal encounter: Lady Jaina Proudmoore; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Teleport; different tooltip textA different caster
#289866journal encounter: Lady Jaina Proudmoore; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Teleport; different tooltip textA different caster
#290053no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#290284used by: Cast by Flash Freeze; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#290535duration: until cancelledA variant record
#341355school: Physical; duration: 2 min; effect types: Summon; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#341459school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Dummy, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#341509school: Physical; duration: until cancelledA variant record
#341510school: Shadow; duration: until cancelled; effect values: 10 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning

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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