Skip to content
Solar Beam

Spell

Solar Beam

Nature

Advertisement

Druid

Instant cast1 min cooldownExtended Range

Summons a beam of solar light over an enemy target's location, interrupting the target and silencing all enemies within the beam.

Solar Beam

Tooltip

Summons a beam of solar light over an enemy target's location, interrupting the target and silencing all enemies within the beam. Lasts 8 sec.

How it works

It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

Solar Beam is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64). It triggers Solar Beam.
  2. Effect 2 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).
  3. Effect 3 is Persistent Area Aura (effect type 27). It applies aura type 4. Its area radius is 5 yards.

What it does

Solar Beam is a Nature spell with an instant cast, a range of 50 yards, a 1 min cooldown and effects that last 8 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect effect and leaves a persistent area effect on the ground in a 5 yard radius. It also casts Solar Beam (record #97547).

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

SchoolNature
Range50 yards (Extended Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown1 min
Global cooldownNone
Duration8 sec
Effect #1Trigger Spell (64)
Trigger spell: Solar Beam
Effect #2Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 983
Effect #3Persistent Area Aura (27)
Aura type id 4
Radius: 5 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 #311930. 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
#295521school: Holy, Fire; cast time: 1 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#295532used by: Cast by Solar Beam; school: Holy, Fire; duration: none; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#295533school: Holy, Fire; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#300660school: Holy, Fire; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, effect 140; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#300678school: Holy, Fire; duration: none; effect types: Knock BackA different effect setup
#300682used by: Cast by Solar Beam; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: effect 61A helper record another spell casts
#313030school: Fire; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#420231school: Fire, Arcane; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#420235school: Fire, Arcane; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#421399school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#421934used by: Cast by Solar Beam; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#421935school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile, Trigger MissileA 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.

Comments

Read player comments on Solar Beam at Wowhead (opens Wowhead in a new tab)