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Shadow Bolt

Spell

Shadow Bolt

Shadow

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0.5 secLong Range

Hurls a bolt of dark magic at an enemy, inflicting 2250 to 2750 Shadow damage.

Shadow Bolt

Tooltip

Hurls a bolt of dark magic at an enemy, inflicting 2250 to 2750 Shadow damage.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 2250. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Shadow Bolt is a Shadow spell with a 0.5 sec cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 2250).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70003. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast time0.5 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 2250
Spell power coefficient: 1

Raw client values from the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70003. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 300 separate Spell records named "Shadow Bolt". This page is record #19729. 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
#18164cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#18205cast time: 2.2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#18211used by: Cast by Doombringer; cast time: 2.2 sec; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#18214cast time: 2.2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#18217cast time: 2.2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#19728no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#20298cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#20791cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#20807cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#20816cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#20825cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#21077no compared field differsA duplicate client 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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