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Solar Beam

Spell

Solar Beam

Fire

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2 secMedium Range

Inflicts 20 Fire damage to all enemies in front of the caster.

Solar Beam

Tooltip

Inflicts 20 Fire damage to all enemies in front of the caster.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 20. Its area radius is 30 yards. It triggers Might of the Sun.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its area radius is 30 yards. It triggers Solar Explosion.
  3. Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its area radius is 30 yards. It triggers spell id 312626.

What it does

Solar Beam is a Fire spell with a 2 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 20) in a 30 yard radius. It also casts Might of the Sun and Solar Explosion.

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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time2 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 20
Radius: 30 yards
Trigger spell: Might of the Sun
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Radius: 30 yards
Trigger spell: Solar Explosion
Effect #3Dummy (3)
Radius: 30 yards
Trigger spell id 312626

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 #313030. 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; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#295532used by: Cast by Solar Beam; school: Holy, Fire; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#295533school: Holy, Fire; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#300660school: Holy, Fire; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, effect 140; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#300678school: Holy, Fire; cast 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
#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
#421935school: Physical; cast time: instant; 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.

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