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Superstrain

Spell

Superstrain

Frost

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Death Knight

Instant castMedium Range

Blast the target with a frigid wind, dealing Frost damage and applying Frost Fever to the target.

Superstrain

Tooltip

Blast the target with a frigid wind, dealing Frost damage and applying Frost Fever to the target.

Frost Fever
A disease that deals Frost damage over 24 sec and has a chance to grant the Death Knight 4 Runic Power each time it deals damage.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64). It scales with 0.1343 times attack power. Its area radius is 10 yards. It triggers Frost Fever.

What it does

Superstrain is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 30 yards. It also casts Frost Fever.

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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1Trigger Spell (64)
Attack power coefficient: 0.1343
Radius: 10 yards
Trigger spell: Frost Fever

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 6 separate Spell records named "Superstrain". This page is record #331959. 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
#331931school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#334974school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#390283used by: Talent: Death Knight; school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different owner
#1242078used by: Cast by Superstrain; effect types: Energize, Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#1282554school: Physical; 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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