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Tidal Wave

Spell

Tidal Wave

Frost

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Instant cast12 sec cooldownTwenty yards

Summon a tidal wave that travels forwards, dealing Frost damage and knocking back any enemies that it hits.

Tidal Wave

Tooltip

Summon a tidal wave that travels forwards, dealing Frost damage and knocking back any enemies that it hits.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

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

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3).
  2. Effect 2 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179). Its base value is 40. Its area radius is 5 yards.

What it does

Tidal Wave is a Frost spell with an instant cast, a range of 20 yards, a 12 sec cooldown and effects that last 5 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect effect in a 5 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

SchoolFrost
Range20 yards (Twenty yards)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown12 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration5 sec
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Effect #2Create Area Effect (179)
Value: 40
Misc value: 12166
Radius: 5 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 #258736. 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
#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; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, effect 138; different tooltip textA different caster
#233976duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#233977duration: 6 sec; effect types: effect 160, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#233996cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#234186school: Physical, Frost; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#234196school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#258738effect types: School Damage, Knock Back, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#275572school: Nature; cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % 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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