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Spell

Tempest

Frost

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Instant castMedium-Long

Inflicts Frost damage to all nearby enemies.

Tempest

Tooltip

Inflicts Frost damage to all nearby enemies.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is effect type 165, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 8.

What it does

Tempest is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 35 yards.

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
Range35 yards (Medium-Long)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Effect 165
Value: 8

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 35 separate Spell records named "Tempest". This page is record #179514. 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
#119875school: Nature; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 12 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#179417cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#188369school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#192234school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#199920used by: Cast by Tempest Attunement; school: Physical; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#199948used by: Cast by Tempest Attunement; school: Nature; duration: 10 sec; effect types: effect 165, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#200198used by: Cast by Tempest Attunement; school: Physical; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#210770school: Nature; cast time: 1.4 sec; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Summon; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#210774school: Nature; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#210822school: Physical; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#210838school: Nature; duration: 21 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#272331school: Physical; duration: 12 sec; effect types: School Damage, 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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