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Undertow

Spell

Undertow

Frost

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0.5 sec5 sec cooldownOne Thousand Yards

When the Primal Tsunami is unable to attack enemies in melee, it periodically inflicts 18 Frost damage to all players.

Undertow

Tooltip

When the Primal Tsunami is unable to attack enemies in melee, it periodically inflicts 18 Frost damage to all players.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 18. Its area radius is 300 yards.

What it does

Undertow is a Frost spell with a 0.5 sec cast, an unlimited range and a 5 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 18) in a 300 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
Range1000 yards (One Thousand Yards)
Cast time0.5 sec
Cooldown5 sec
Global cooldownNone
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 18
Radius: 300 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 26 separate Spell records named "Undertow". This page is record #389875. 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
#289487school: Physical; cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#289490used by: Cast by Undertow; school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#299777cast time: 3 sec; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#299805cast time: instant; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#299900cast time: 3 sec; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#355451school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#388529cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Knock BackA different effect setup
#389872journal encounter: Primal Tsunami; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#389876cast time: instant; effect types: effect 254A different effect setup
#396869used by: Cast by Undertow; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#427727school: Nature; cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 25 (this record: 18); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#427728school: Nature; cast time: instant; effect types: effect 254A 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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