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Solar Beam

Spell

Solar Beam

HolyFire

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1 secTwenty yards

Burns nearby enemies with solar flames.

Solar Beam

Tooltip

Burns nearby enemies with solar flames.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 20. Its area radius is 4 yards.

What it does

Solar Beam is a Holy and Fire spell with a 1 sec cast and a range of 20 yards. When cast it deals Holy and Fire damage (base value 20) 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

SchoolHoly, Fire
Range20 yards (Twenty yards)
Cast time1 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 20
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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 30 separate Spell records named "Solar Beam". This page is record #295521. 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
#177454school: Fire; cast time: instant; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#295532used by: Cast by Solar Beam; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#295533cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#300660cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, effect 140; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#300678cast time: instant; effect types: Knock BackA different effect setup
#300682used by: Cast by Solar Beam; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: effect 61A helper record another spell casts
#311930school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Trigger Spell, Create Area Effect, Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#313030school: Fire; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#420231school: Fire, Arcane; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#420235school: Fire, Arcane; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#421399school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#421934used by: Cast by Solar Beam; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA 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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