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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)
Fireball

Spell

Fireball

Fire

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2.5 secTower 100

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.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 765. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Fireball is a Fire spell with a 2.5 sec cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 765).

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

SchoolFire
Range100 yards (Tower 100)
Cast time2.5 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 765
Spell power coefficient: 1

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

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 273 separate Spell records named "Fireball". This page is record #22088. 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
#20793cast time: 3 secA variant record
#20797cast time: 3 secA variant record
#20808cast time: 3 secA variant record
#20811cast time: 3 secA variant record
#20815cast time: 3 secA variant record
#20823cast time: 3 secA variant record
#21072cast time: 3 secA variant record
#21159used by: Cast by Sulfuron Hammer; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 8 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#21162cast time: 2 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#21402cast time: 3 secA variant record
#21549cast time: 3 secA variant record
#23024cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy, DummyA 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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