tgstation/-tg-station — pull request #4387 by Incoming5643 (2014-08-11 00:14:43+00:00)
Title: Magic Mania 1.67: Great Balls of Fireballs

Changes the wand of fireball projectile to have the same !!FUN!! proximity detonation properties as the spell version. Slightly moved the damage types from getting hit by the fireball around to better simulate the experience.

Fun fact about spell fireballs: Because the projectile is desiged to explode if it comes within a square of somebody who isn't the wizard direct contact between fireballs and mobs is very rare. This means that while the fireballs are designed to do an extra 25 brute and 20 burn ON CONTACT this usually doesn't happen.

That's why the added damage on the wand here isn't 25/20, because that would actually make it signigicantly better than the spell.