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Blizzard

Spell

Blizzard

Frost

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Instant castLonger Range

Ice shards pelt the target area doing 6940 Frost damage over 10 sec.

Blizzard

Tooltip

Ice shards pelt the target area doing 6940 Frost damage over 10 sec.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is Persistent Area Aura (effect type 27). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 1388 per tick. Its area radius is 10 yards. It ticks every 2 sec, 5 times over the full 10 sec (6940 base in total).
  2. Effect 2 is Persistent Area Aura (effect type 27). It applies aura type 33. Its base value is -30. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 10 yards.

What it does

Blizzard is a Frost spell with an instant cast, a range of 45 yards and effects that last 10 sec. When cast it leaves a persistent area effect on the ground in a 10 yard radius every 2 sec and leaves a persistent area effect on the ground in a 10 yard radius.

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

SchoolFrost
Range45 yards (Longer Range)
Cast timeInstant
Duration10 sec
Effect #1Persistent Area Aura (27)
Aura type id 3
Value: 1388
Radius: 10 yards
Period: every 2 sec
Effect #2Persistent Area Aura (27)
Aura type id 33
Value: -30
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 10 yards

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 146 separate Spell records named "Blizzard". This page is record #26607. 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
#20680cast time: 1 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#21096cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#21367cast time: 1 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#25019effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#27618subtext: Rank 6; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Persistent Area AuraA different rank or variant
#29458school: Physical; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Persistent Area AuraA different effect setup
#29951difficulty rows: 10 Player; used by: Cast by Circular Blizzard; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#30093cast time: 2 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#31266cast time: 1 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#31581effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#33418cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#33624cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; 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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