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Holy Nova

Spell

Holy Nova

Holy

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Priest

Instant castSelf Only

Causes an explosion of holy light around the caster, causing 28 to 32 Holy damage to all enemy targets within 10 yards and healing all party members within 10 yards for 52 to 60.

Holy Nova

Tooltip

Causes an explosion of holy light around the caster, causing 28 to 32 Holy damage to all enemy targets within 10 yards and healing all party members within 10 yards for 52 to 60. These effects cause no threat.

How it works

Each cast of Holy Nova costs 185 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 28. It scales with 0.161 times spell power. Its area radius is 10 yards.

What it does

Holy Nova is a Holy spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Holy damage (base value 28) 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

SchoolHoly
Cost185 Mana
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 28
Spell power coefficient: 0.161
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.

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Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 32 separate Spell records named "Holy Nova". This page is record #15237. 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
#20694different tooltip textA variant record
#23455effect types: HealA different effect setup
#23858effect types: School Damage, Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#29514effect types: School Damage, Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#34944effect types: School Damage, Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#35740effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#36985effect types: School Damage, Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#37669effect types: School Damage, Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#38589effect types: School Damage, Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#40096effect types: School Damage, Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#41380effect types: School Damage, Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#46564cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Heal; 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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