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Tidal Burst

Spell

Tidal Burst

Frost

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Instant castLong Range

Conjure a watery explosion at a player's location, inflicting 30 Frost damage to players and knocking them into the air.

Tidal Burst

Tooltip

Conjure a watery explosion at a player's location, inflicting 30 Frost damage to players and knocking them into the air.

How it works

Tidal Burst is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 30. Its area radius is 6 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 120. Its area radius is 6 yards.

What it does

Tidal Burst is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 30) in a 6 yard radius and has a Knock Back effect in a 6 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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 30
Radius: 6 yards
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 120
Radius: 6 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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Tidal Burst 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 13 separate Spell records named "Tidal Burst". This page is record #356260. 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
#39878journal encounter: High Warlord Naj'entus; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#224695school: Nature; cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Trigger Spell, Trigger Spell, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#224696school: Nature; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#224697school: Nature; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#224699school: Nature; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#224700school: Nature; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#286998effect types: effect 165; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#305011school: Nature; cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Knock BackA different effect setup
#356225effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#397889cast time: 3.5 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#1244650school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#1244655school: Physical; effect types: Trigger MissileA 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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