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Explosive Trap

Spell

Explosive Trap

Fire

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Instant cast30 sec cooldownSelf Only

Place a fire trap that explodes when an enemy approaches, causing to Fire damage and burning all enemies for 150 additional Fire damage over 20 sec to all within 10 yards.

Explosive Trap

Tooltip

Place a fire trap that explodes when an enemy approaches, causing to Fire damage and burning all enemies for 150 additional Fire damage over 20 sec to all within 10 yards. Trap will exist for 1 min. Only one trap can be active at a time.

How it works

Each cast of Explosive Trap costs 275 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is effect type 320, which the datamine does not name. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 2 yards.

What it does

Explosive Trap is a Fire spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster), a 30 sec cooldown and effects that last 1 min.

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

SchoolFire
Cost275 Mana
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown30 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration1 min
Effect #1Effect 320
Spell power coefficient: 1
Misc value: 164839
Radius: 2 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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Explosive Trap appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

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

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Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 22 separate Spell records named "Explosive Trap". This page is record #13813. 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
#13812duration: 20 sec; effect types: School Damage, Persistent Area AuraA different effect setup
#43444effect types: Summon Object; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#80596effect types: noneA different effect setup
#128953effect types: noneA different effect setup
#140794effect types: noneA different effect setup
#140795effect types: noneA different effect setup
#140798effect types: noneA different effect setup
#176734effect types: noneA different effect setup
#176739effect types: noneA different effect setup
#176745effect types: noneA different effect setup
#176748effect types: noneA different effect setup
#176749effect types: noneA 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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