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The Burning CrusadeThe Burning Crusade 2.5.6 · Outland, the Dark Portal and Shattrath · client build 2.5.6.70006Also on WoW Forever · Classic Era · Wrath of the Lich King · MoP Classic · Retail (Midnight)
Fireball

Spell

Fireball

Fire

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Instant castMedium-Long Range

Inflicts Fire damage to an enemy.

Fireball

Tooltip

Inflicts Fire damage to an enemy.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 450. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 35 yards.

What it does

Fireball is a Fire spell with an instant cast and a range of 35 yards. When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 450) in a 35 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

SchoolFire
Range35 yards (Medium-Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 450
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 35 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 273 separate Spell records named "Fireball". This page is record #30534. 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
#29456school: Physical; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#29925cast time: 2 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#29953cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#30218cast time: 1 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#30691cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, effect 77A different effect setup
#30943cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#30967cast time: 5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#31262cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#31620cast time: 3 secA variant record
#32363cast time: 1 secA variant record
#32414cast time: 3 secA variant record
#32491cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, effect 77A 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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