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Hellfire Effect

Spell

Hellfire Effect

Fire

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Warlock

Instant castSelf Only

Deals 137 Fire damage.

Hellfire Effect

Tooltip

Deals 137 Fire damage.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 137. It scales with 0.022 times spell power. Its area radius is 10 yards.

What it does

Hellfire Effect is a Fire spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Fire damage (base value 137) in a 10 yard radius.

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 137
Spell power coefficient: 0.022
Radius: 10 yards

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

Hellfire Effect sounds

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

Hellfire (FireCast)SoundKit 4274

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

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Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 4 separate Spell records named "Hellfire Effect". This page is record #11681. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#30860used by: Cast by Hellfire; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#65817used by: Cast by Hellfire; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#69585used by: Cast by Hellfire; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#77427used by: Cast by Hellfire; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts

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
Level data sightedBase level 42 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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