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Tidal Wave

Spell

Tidal Wave

Nature

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2 sec3 sec cooldownSelf Only

Summons a wave that inflicts 4.85811 Nature damage to all enemies in front of the caster, knocking them back.

Tidal Wave

Tooltip

Summons a wave that inflicts 4.85811 Nature damage to all enemies in front of the caster, knocking them back.

How it works

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

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 4.8581. Its area radius is 10 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 55. Its area radius is 10 yards.

What it does

Tidal Wave is a Nature spell with a 2 sec cast, no range (it targets the caster) and a 3 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 4.8581) in a 10 yard radius and has a Knock Back effect in a 10 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

SchoolNature
RangeSelf Only
Cast time2 sec
Cooldown3 sec
Global cooldownNone
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 4.8581
Radius: 10 yards
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 55
Misc value: 75
Radius: 10 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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 44 separate Spell records named "Tidal Wave". This page is record #176301. 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
#149187effect types: Dummy, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#149188cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#192753school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 3 min; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#192791school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#192792school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#192793used by: Cast by Tidal Wave; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#192797used by: Cast by Tidal Wave; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#192798used by: Cast by Tidal Wave; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#192801difficulty rows: Heroic; journal encounter: Wrath of Azshara; school: Frost; cast time: instant; duration: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#192940school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#192941school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#197219school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; 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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