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Taint of the Sea

Spell

Taint of the Sea

Frost

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Instant cast3 sec cooldownThree 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

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

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its area radius is 300 yards.

What it does

Taint of the Sea is a Frost spell with an instant cast, a range of 300 yards and a 3 sec cooldown.

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
Cooldown3 sec
Global cooldownNone
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Radius: 300 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 #197517. 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
#197264effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#198110no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#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 types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#227937school: PhysicalA variant record
#228054difficulty rows: Normal, Heroic; journal encounter: Helya; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#228088difficulty rows: Mythic; effect values: 228054 (this record: 0); different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#228102school: PhysicalA variant record
#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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