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Tidal Crash

Spell

Tidal Crash

Frost

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

The caster rides a wave, inflicting Frost damage and knocking back enemies in its path.

Tidal Crash

Tooltip

The caster rides a wave, inflicting Frost damage and knocking back enemies in its path.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 500.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 50.

What it does

Tidal Crash is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 500) and has a Knock Back effect.

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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 500
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 50
Misc value: 100

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 10 separate Spell records named "Tidal Crash". This page is record #259373. 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
#154202school: Physical; effect types: effect 77, DummyA different effect setup
#154206used by: Cast by Tidal Crash; effect types: effect 203, effect 140, School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#154207school: Physical; effect types: Jump to Destination, Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#154208used by: Cast by Tidal Crash; school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#154210school: Physical; effect values: 9.72, 150 (this record: 500, 50); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#154212school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#259370used by: Cast by Tidal Crash; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 149; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#259376used by: Cast by Tidal Crash; school: Physical; effect types: effect 164A helper record another spell casts
#427694school: Nature; cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 10 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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