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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 cast1 sec cooldownAnywhere - Unlimited

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.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 255. It scales with 1 times spell power.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 77, which the datamine does not name.

What it does

Fireball is a Fire spell with an instant cast, an unlimited range and a 1 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 255).

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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown1 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 1152
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 255
Spell power coefficient: 1
Effect #2Effect 77

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 #36920. 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
#34083cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#34348cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#34653duration: 15 sec; effect types: School Damage, Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#36711effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#36805cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#36971cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#37111cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#37329cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#37463effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#38641effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#38824effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#39267cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School DamageA 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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