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Torch

Spell

Torch

Fire

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Instant castMedium Range

Burns all enemies in an area around the caster and inflicts additional Fire damage every 2 sec.

Torch

Tooltip

Burns all enemies in an area around the caster and inflicts additional Fire damage every 2 sec. for 8 sec.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 147. Its area radius is 5 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Persistent Area Aura (effect type 27). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 16 per tick. Its area radius is 5 yards. It ticks every 2 sec, 4 times over the full 8 sec (64 base in total).

What it does

Torch is a Fire spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 8 sec. When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 147) in a 5 yard radius and leaves a persistent area effect on the ground in a 5 yard radius every 2 sec.

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

SchoolFire
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Duration8 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 147
Radius: 5 yards
Effect #2Persistent Area Aura (27)
Aura type id 3
Value: 16
Radius: 5 yards
Period: every 2 sec

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 36 separate Spell records named "Torch". This page is record #13382. 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
#13381different tooltip textA variant record
#23202effect types: School Damage, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#35857duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#43057school: Physical; cast time: 1 sec; duration: none; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#52953school: Physical; cast time: 0.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: effect 77A different effect setup
#52955duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area AuraA different effect setup
#54984school: Physical; cast time: 0.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#54985duration: 1 min; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#55049duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#58121school: Physical; cast time: 0.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: effect 77A different effect setup
#58125duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#76048school: Physical; duration: 1 min; 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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70532, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted2 effect rows in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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