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Tidal Surge

Spell

Tidal Surge

Frost

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Your damaging spells and abilities have a chance to release a tidal surge, dealing Frost damage to your target and slowing their movement speed by 20% for 6 sec.

Tidal Surge

Tooltip

Your damaging spells and abilities have a chance to release a tidal surge, dealing Frost damage to your target and slowing their movement speed by 20% for 6 sec.

How it works

Its dispel type is client id 1.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2).
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 33. Its base value is 20. It applies the snared mechanic.

What it does

Tidal Surge is a Frost spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and effects that last 6 sec. When cast it deals Frost damage and applies an aura with the snared mechanic.

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
Duration6 sec
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 33
Value: 20
Mechanic: Snared

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 Surge 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 19 separate Spell records named "Tidal Surge". This page is record #280404. 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
#267977cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#276039school: Nature; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#276042duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#276047school: Nature; duration: 6.5 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#276068journal encounter: Hadal Darkfathom; cast time: 4 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#279962school: Nature; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#280402duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#280403duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#290586school: Nature; duration: none; effect types: effect 90A different effect setup
#428952journal encounter: Ozumat; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#454519cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#471862school: Nature; cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Knock BackA 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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