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Taint of the Sea

Spell

Taint of the Sea

Frost

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Instant cast3 sec cooldownThree Hundred Yards

Places a taint on enemies that inflicts Frost damage on impact, then inflicts additional Frost damage every 1 sec for 6 sec.

Taint of the Sea

Tooltip

Places a taint on enemies that inflicts Frost damage on impact, then inflicts additional Frost damage every 1 sec for 6 sec. When the effects falls off, Tainted Essence is created at the destination.

How it works

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

Taint of the Sea is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 150.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 45 per tick. It ticks every 1 sec, 6 times over the full 6 sec (270 base in total).

What it does

Taint of the Sea is a Frost spell with an instant cast, a range of 300 yards, a 3 sec cooldown and effects that last 6 sec. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 150) and applies an aura every 1 sec.

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
Duration6 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 150
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Value: 45
Period: every 1 sec

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 #231329. 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
#198110duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA 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
#215695duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#227937school: Physical; duration: none; 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; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#228102school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#228515duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#230268school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#231459cast time: 1.2 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#232375school: Physical; duration: 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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