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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. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 900. 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 900).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. 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
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 900
Spell power coefficient: 1

Raw client values from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Sounds

Fireball sounds

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

SPELL_Fire_PreCastLow_LoopSoundKit 702

  1. Precastfirelow5.1s · ID 569045 · spells
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

SPELL_Fire_CastSoundKit 1484

  1. Firecast0.8s · ID 569764 · spells/cast
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

SPELL_Fire_Missile_LoopSoundKit 3011

  1. Firemissileloop4.0s · ID 569777 · spells/missile
    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 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 sec; effect values: 502.84 (this record: 900)Different tuning
#20797cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 502.84 (this record: 900)Different tuning
#20808cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 537.92 (this record: 900)Different tuning
#20811cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 537.92 (this record: 900)Different tuning
#20815cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 573 (this record: 900)Different tuning
#20823cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 613.93 (this record: 900)Different tuning
#21072cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 573 (this record: 900)Different tuning
#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 sec; effect values: 877.05 (this record: 900)Different tuning
#21549cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 573 (this record: 900)Different tuning
#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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70532, 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 sighted1 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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