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Shattering Lance

Spell

Shattering Lance

Frost

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6 secSelf Only

If a player becomes frozen solid, a Shattering Lance forms near Jaina.

Shattering Lance

Tooltip

If a player becomes frozen solid, a Shattering Lance forms near Jaina. After a few seconds, the ice lance fires out in a line towards the frozen target, inflicting 20 Frost damage to all players struck.

inflicts triple damage to frozen targets.

How it works

Shattering Lance is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 20. Its area radius is 200 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 50. Its area radius is 200 yards.

What it does

Shattering Lance is a Frost spell with a 6 sec cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 20) in a 200 yard radius and has a Knock Back effect in a 200 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

SchoolFrost
RangeSelf Only
Cast time6 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 20
Radius: 200 yards
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 50
Misc value: 100
Radius: 200 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?

Shattering Lance 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 9 separate Spell records named "Shattering Lance". This page is record #288671. 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
#288665school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#288666cast time: instant; duration: 20 sec; effect types: SummonA different effect setup
#288799school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#298270cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#337120cast time: 5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Instakill; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#337124school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: InstakillA different effect setup
#337126cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#339724effect types: Dummy; 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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