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Tidal Wave

Spell

Tidal Wave

Frost

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2 sec5 sec cooldownSelf Only

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

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

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3).

What it does

Tidal Wave is a Frost spell with a 2 sec cast, no range (it targets the caster) and a 5 sec cooldown.

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast time2 sec
Cooldown5 sec
Global cooldownNone
Effect #1Dummy (3)

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 #233996. 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; 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
#233970used by: Cast by Tidal Wave; cast time: instant; duration: 22 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#233971journal encounter: Si'vash; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, effect 138A different caster
#233976cast time: instantA variant record
#233977cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: effect 160, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#234186school: Physical, Frost; effect values: 32.5 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#234196school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#258736cast time: instant; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Dummy, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#258738cast time: instant; duration: 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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