Spell

Shadow Bolt

Shadow

2 secLong Range

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

Shadow Bolt

How it works

Each cast of Shadow Bolt costs 250 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 638. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Shadow Bolt is a Shadow spell with a 2 sec cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 638).

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

School	Shadow
Cost	250 Mana
Range	40 yards (Long Range)
Cast time	2 sec
Global cooldown	1.5 sec
GCD category	Category id 133
Proc chance	Always
Effect #1	School Damage (2) Value: 638 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.

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 300 separate Spell records named "Shadow Bolt". This page is record #24668. 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
#19729	difficulty rows: 40 Player; cast time: 0.5 sec; different tooltip text	A per-difficulty version
#20298	cast time: 3 sec	A variant record
#20791	cast time: 3 sec	A variant record
#20807	cast time: 3 sec	A variant record
#20816	cast time: 3 sec	A variant record
#20825	cast time: 3 sec	A variant record
#21077	cast time: 0.5 sec; different tooltip text	A variant record
#22336	no compared field differs	A duplicate client record
#22677	no compared field differs	A duplicate client record
#26006	cast time: 1 sec	A variant record
#29317	cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, effect 77	A different effect setup
#29487	effect types: none	A 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.

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Shadow Bolt

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