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Tidal Wave

Spell

Tidal Wave

Frost

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Instant castFive Hundred Yards

Calls on the fury of the sea in the form of massive tidal waves that sweep across the beach, inflicting 111.951 Frost damage and knocking back enemies caught in their wake.

Tidal Wave

Tooltip

Calls on the fury of the sea in the form of massive tidal waves that sweep across the beach, inflicting 111.951 Frost damage and knocking back enemies caught in their wake.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its area radius is 500 yards.

What it does

Tidal Wave is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 500 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
Range500 yards (Five Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Radius: 500 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 #233976. 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
#192801difficulty rows: Heroic; journal encounter: Wrath of Azshara; duration: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#192940school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#192941school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#197219school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#233970used by: Cast by Tidal Wave; duration: 22 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#233971journal encounter: Si'vash; effect types: School Damage, effect 138A different caster
#233977duration: 6 sec; effect types: effect 160, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#233996cast time: 2 secA variant record
#234186school: Physical, Frost; cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 32.5 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#234196school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#258736duration: 5 sec; effect types: Dummy, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#258738duration: 5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Knock Back, 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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