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Arcane Blast

Spell

Arcane Blast

Arcane

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Instant castCombat Range

Blasts an enemy with Arcane magic, inflicting normal damage plus 5846.97 and knocking the enemy back.

Arcane Blast

Tooltip

Blasts an enemy with Arcane magic, inflicting normal damage plus 5846.97 and knocking the enemy back.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

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

  1. Effect 1 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 75.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 5846.97. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Arcane Blast is an Arcane spell with an instant cast and a range of 5 yards. When cast it has a Knock Back effect and deals Arcane damage (base value 5846.97).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70338. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolArcane
Range5 yards (Combat Range)
Cast timeInstant
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Knock Back (98)
Value: 75
Misc value: 350
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 5846.97
Spell power coefficient: 1

Raw client values from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70338. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Sounds

Arcane Blast sounds

The sounds the game plays when Arcane Blast is cast and lands, straight from the client. Press play, or open a kit for every file and the download formats.

Magic CastSoundKit 1641

  1. Shadowcast0.8s · ID 569766 · spells/cast
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

MAGE_ArcaneMissile_ImpactSoundKit 3333

  1. Arcanemissileimpact1a1.8s · ID 569631 · spells
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal
  2. Arcanemissileimpact1b1.6s · ID 569565 · spells
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal
  3. Arcanemissileimpact1c2.1s · ID 569554 · spells
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

Joined in the WoW Forever beta client: spell visual, then visual kit, then SoundKit, then the sound file. Browse every game sound in the sound archive.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 100 separate Spell records named "Arcane Blast". This page is record #22920. 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
#10833effect types: Knock Back, Weapon DamageA different effect setup
#18091used by: Cast by Archeus; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#20883effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#22893effect types: School Damage, Knock BackA different effect setup
#24857effect values: 70, 1200 (this record: 75, 5846.97)Different tuning
#30451used by: Arcane Mage; effect types: noneA different owner
#31457effect types: noneA different effect setup
#32935effect types: noneA different effect setup
#34793effect types: noneA different effect setup
#35314effect types: noneA different effect setup
#35927effect types: noneA different effect setup
#37126effect types: noneA 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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70338, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted2 effect rows in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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