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Water Bolt

Spell

Water Bolt

Frost

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1.5 secLonger Range

Hurls a watery bolt at an enemy, inflicting 4 Frost damage.

Water Bolt

Tooltip

Hurls a watery bolt at an enemy, inflicting 4 Frost damage.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 4.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 114, which the datamine does not name.

What it does

Water Bolt is a Frost spell with a 1.5 sec cast and a range of 45 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 4).

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
Range45 yards (Longer Range)
Cast time1.5 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 4
Effect #2Effect 114

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 81 separate Spell records named "Water Bolt". This page is record #342765. 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
#278219cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#281420cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#284288cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#289647cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#299746cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#303299cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Weapon % DamageA different effect setup
#317249cast time: 1 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#371584cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#373483cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Weapon % DamageA different effect setup
#377338cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#390988cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#394959cast time: 0.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; 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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