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Piercing Frost

Spell

Piercing Frost

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

Inflicts 3 Frost damage every 1 sec and reduces the target's movement speed by 10% for 1 min or until cancelled by a Fire effect.

Piercing Frost

Tooltip

Inflicts 3 Frost damage every 1 sec and reduces the target's movement speed by 10% for 1 min or until cancelled by a Fire effect.

How it works

Piercing Frost is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 226. Its base value is 7 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 60 times over the full 1 min (420 base in total). It triggers Piercing Frost.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3).
  3. Effect 3 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 33. Its base value is 10. It applies the snared mechanic.

What it does

Piercing Frost is a Frost spell with an instant cast, an unlimited range and effects that last 1 min. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec and applies an aura with the snared mechanic. It also casts Piercing Frost (record #1310662).

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
Duration1 min
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 226
Value: 7
Period: every 1 sec
Trigger spell: Piercing Frost
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Effect #3Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 33
Value: 10
Mechanic: Snared

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?

Piercing Frost appears in: 1 boss encounter and 1 spell that casts it.

Boss encounters

Spells that cast it

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

Build history

this spell Changelog

Added in patch 12.1.0.

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 4 separate Spell records named "Piercing Frost". This page is record #1295954. 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
#1290934duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1297952effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#1310662used by: Cast by Piercing Frost; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts

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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