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Arcane Blast

Spell

Arcane Blast

Arcane

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Instant castCombat Range

Blasts an enemy with Arcane magic, inflicting normal damage plus 4500 to 5500 and knocking the enemy back.

Arcane Blast

Tooltip

Blasts an enemy with Arcane magic, inflicting normal damage plus 4500 to 5500 and knocking the enemy back.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

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

  1. Effect 1 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 30.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 4500.

What it does

Arcane Blast is an Arcane spell with an instant cast and a range of 5 yards. When cast it has a Knock Back effect and deals Arcane damage (base value 4500).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Burning Crusade client, build 2.5.6.70006. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolArcane
Range5 yards (Combat Range)
Cast timeInstant
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Knock Back (98)
Value: 30
Misc value: 75
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 4500

Raw client values from the Burning Crusade client, build 2.5.6.70006. 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 100 separate Spell records named "Arcane Blast". This page is record #38538. 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
#30451subtext: Rank 1; used by: Arcane Mage; cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#31457no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#32935no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#34793no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#35314no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#35927cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#37126no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#38342effect types: Knock Back, Weapon DamageA different effect setup
#38344effect types: Knock Back, Weapon % DamageA different effect setup
#38881cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#40837no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#40881no compared field differsA duplicate client record

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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