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Scorched Earth

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Scorched Earth

Fire

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Instant castThree Hundred Yards

Fires a ball of Napalm at the enemy's destination that does 340.729 Fire damage on impact and leaves a pool of burning Napalm.

Scorched Earth

Tooltip

Fires a ball of Napalm at the enemy's destination that does 340.729 Fire damage on impact and leaves a pool of burning Napalm.

How it works

Scorched Earth is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 340.729. Its area radius is 4 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179). Its area radius is 4 yards.

What it does

Scorched Earth is a Fire spell with an instant cast, a range of 300 yards and effects that last 30 sec. When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 340.729) in a 4 yard radius and has a Create Area Effect effect in a 4 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

SchoolFire
Range300 yards (Three Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Duration30 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 340.729
Radius: 4 yards
Effect #2Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 1223
Radius: 4 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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Scorched Earth appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 47 separate Spell records named "Scorched Earth". This page is record #146225. 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
#126859school: Physical; duration: 1 sec; effect types: Trigger Missile, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#126862school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#126865duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#129243used by: Cast by Scorched Earth Random Forcecast; school: Physical; duration: 1 sec; effect types: Trigger Missile, Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#146221school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#146223cast time: 5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#146228duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#146402cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#146404duration: none; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#151766cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#151767school: Physical; duration: 1 min; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#151775duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA 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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