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Taint of the Sea

Spell

Taint of the Sea

Frost

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Instant castThree Hundred Yards

Taints a target, inflicting 2.35097 Frost damage every second for 21 sec.

Taint of the Sea

Tooltip

Taints a target, inflicting 2.35097 Frost damage every second for 21 sec. When this aura is removed, the taint explodes, inflicting 9.51585 Frost damage to all players.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 9.5159. Its area radius is 100 yards.

What it does

Taint of the Sea is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 300 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 9.5159) in a 100 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

SchoolFrost
Range300 yards (Three Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 9.5159
Radius: 100 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 17 separate Spell records named "Taint of the Sea". This page is record #197264. 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
#194602school: Physical; duration: 2.1 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, SpawnA different effect setup
#197262journal encounter: Helya; duration: 21 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#197517effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#198110effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#215670duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#215672used by: Cast by Taint of the Sea; duration: 16 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#215695effect values: 0 (this record: 9.52); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#227937school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#228054difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic; journal encounter: Helya; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#228088difficulty rows: Mythic; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#228102school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#228515duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA 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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