Tooltip
You become encased in a block of ice, protecting you from all physical attacks and spells for until cancelled, but during that time you cannot attack, move or cast spells.
What it does
Ice Block is a Frost spell with an instant cast, a range of 200 yards and an effect that lasts until cancelled. When cast it applies an aura in a 100 yard radius. The client files the whole spell under the invulnerable mechanic.
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 facts
Datamined from the current retail game build. Numbers that scale with level or stats are shown at their base value.
Spell Details
| School | Frost |
|---|---|
| Range | 200 yards (Two-Hundred Yard Range) |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Duration | Infinite |
| Mechanic | Invulnerable |
| Dispel type | Dispel type id 1 |
| Effect #1 | Apply Aura (6) Aura type id 12 Radius: 100 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.
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 51 separate Spell records named "Ice Block". This page is record #251345. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #211014 | used by: Cast by Ice Block; duration: 30 sec | A helper record another spell casts |
| #240133 | duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #241720 | school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Dummy | A different effect setup |
| #241722 | school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 5 sec | A variant record |
| #256590 | school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura | A different effect setup |
| #256730 | school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura | A different effect setup |
| #262192 | no compared field differs | A duplicate client record |
| #271527 | no compared field differs | A duplicate client record |
| #278960 | school: Physical; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #287322 | school: Physical; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #287347 | school: Physical; duration: 1 min | A variant record |
| #290049 | duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A 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.