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Wrath of the Lich KingWrath of the Lich King era data from Blizzard's titan client, build 3.80.2.69874Also on WoW Forever · Classic Era · The Burning Crusade · MoP Classic · Retail (Midnight)
Blizzard

Spell

Blizzard

Frost

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Mage

Instant castTower 100

Ice shards pelt the target area doing Frost damage over 8 sec.

Blizzard

Tooltip

Ice shards pelt the target area doing Frost damage over 8 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 36. It scales with 0.143 times spell power. Its area radius is 8 yards.

What it does

Blizzard is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Frost damage (base value 36) in an 8 yard radius.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Wrath of the Lich King client, build 3.80.2.69874. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolFrost
Range100 yards (Tower 100)
Cast timeInstant
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 36
Spell power coefficient: 0.143
Radius: 8 yards

Raw client values from the Wrath of the Lich King client, build 3.80.2.69874. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Related

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Chilled to the BoneChilled to the Bone
Cold as IceCold as Ice

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 146 separate Spell records named "Blizzard". This page is record #42208. 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
#34183cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Heal, Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#34356duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura, Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#37263duration: 6 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#37671cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#38646duration: 8 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#39416duration: 10 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#41382duration: 8 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura, Persistent Area Aura, Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#41482journal encounter: The Illidari Council; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#44178duration: 8 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#46195duration: 8 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47727duration: 6 sec; effect types: Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#49034cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 6 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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