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Sends a shadowy bolt at the enemy, causing 360 to 402 Shadow damage.
How it works
Each cast of Shadow Bolt costs 315 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.
- Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 360. It scales with 0.857 times spell power.
What it does
Shadow Bolt is a Shadow spell with a 3 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 360).
Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70576. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.
Spell Details
| School | Shadow |
|---|---|
| Cost | 315 Mana |
| Range | 30 yards (Medium Range) |
| Cast time | 3 sec |
| Global cooldown | 1.5 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Effect #1 | School Damage (2) Value: 360 Spell power coefficient: 0.857 |
Raw client values from the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70576. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.
Related
More Destruction spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 300 separate Spell records named "Shadow Bolt". This page is record #11660. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #7617 | cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #7619 | cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #9613 | different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #12471 | difficulty rows: Normal; different tooltip text | A per-difficulty version |
| #12739 | different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #13440 | used by: Cast by Grimclaw; cast time: 2.2 sec; different tooltip text | A helper record another spell casts |
| #13480 | cast time: 2.2 sec; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #14106 | cast time: 2.2 sec; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #14122 | cast time: 2.2 sec; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #15232 | different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #15472 | different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #15537 | different tooltip text | A variant record |
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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