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Surging Flood

Spell

Surging Flood

Frost

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Unleash a wave that crashes into your target then returns to your original location, inflicting Frost damage over 4 sec to enemies in its path.

Surging Flood

Tooltip

Unleash a wave that crashes into your target then returns to your original location, inflicting Frost damage over 4 sec to enemies in its path. Catch the wave to reduce the cooldown of this ability by 30 sec.

How it works

Surging Flood is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3).
  2. Effect 2 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).

What it does

Surging Flood is a Frost spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 12 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect effect.

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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Duration12 sec
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Effect #2Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 17329

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?

Surging Flood appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 4 separate Spell records named "Surging Flood". This page is record #302550. 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
#302579duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#302580duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#306146duration: none; effect types: Trigger SpellA 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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