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Wildfire

Spell

Wildfire

Nature

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Instant castThree Hundred Yards

Lightning strikes the target location, inflicting Nature damage to everything of its impact.

Wildfire

Tooltip

Lightning strikes the target location, inflicting Nature damage to everything of its impact. Additionally, a wildfire starts to burn, inflicting 4.4 Fire damage every 1 sec.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is Create Area Effect (effect type 179).
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 8.8. Its area radius is 4 yards.

What it does

Wildfire is a Nature spell with an instant cast, a range of 300 yards and effects that last 15 sec. When cast it has a Create Area Effect effect and deals Nature damage (base value 8.8) in a 4 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

SchoolNature
Range300 yards (Three Hundred Yards)
Cast timeInstant
Duration15 sec
Effect #1Create Area Effect (179)
Misc value: 12353
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 8.8
Radius: 4 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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Wildfire appears in: 1 boss encounter and 1 spell that casts it.

Boss encounters

Spells that cast it

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 55 separate Spell records named "Wildfire". This page is record #260570. 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
#240431school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#253562difficulty rows: Heroic, Mythic Keystone; school: Fire; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#260564school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#260566school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#260569difficulty rows: Heroic, Mythic; school: Fire; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#270835school: Fire; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#271227difficulty rows: Mythic; school: Fire; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 4 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#273294difficulty rows: Mythic, Timewalking; school: Fire; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#288755school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#288795used by: Cast by Wildfire; school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#288800used by: Cast by Wildfire; school: Physical; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#288803used by: Cast by Wildfire; school: Physical; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts

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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