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Icy Ground

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Icy Ground

Frost

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Instant castFive Hundred Yards

Standing atop inflicts 4 Frost damage every 1 sec and causes players to slide.

Icy Ground

Tooltip

Standing atop inflicts 4 Frost damage every 1 sec and causes players to slide.

How it works

Icy Ground is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 4 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 600 times over the full 10 min (2400 base in total).
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 260. Its base value is 4.

What it does

Icy Ground is a Frost spell with an instant cast, a range of 500 yards and effects that last 10 min. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec and applies an aura.

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
Range500 yards (Five Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Duration10 min
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 4
Period: every 1 sec
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 260
Value: 4
Misc value: 1975, 5

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?

Icy Ground appears in: 1 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 15 separate Spell records named "Icy Ground". This page is record #372055. 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
#139875school: Physical; duration: 3 min; effect values: 0, 0 (this record: 4, 4)Different tuning
#139877used by: Cast by Icy Ground; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#139909duration: 20 sec; effect values: 18.54, 0 (this record: 4, 4); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#139922used by: Cast by Icy Ground; duration: 1.5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#216310duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#372053used by: Cast by Breath of Ice; duration: 1 min; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#372545duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#374466effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#385169school: Physical; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#388175school: Physical; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#394783school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#395317school: Physical; effect types: Apply AuraA 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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