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Sends a shadowy bolt at the enemy, causing 48 to 56 Shadow damage.
How it works
Each cast of Shadow Bolt costs 70 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.
- Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 48. It scales with 0.56 times spell power.
What it does
Shadow Bolt is a Shadow spell with a 2.8 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 48).
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 | 70 Mana |
| Range | 30 yards (Medium Range) |
| Cast time | 2.8 sec |
| Global cooldown | 1.5 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Effect #1 | School Damage (2) Value: 48 Spell power coefficient: 0.56 |
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 #705. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #686 | subtext: Rank 1; used by: Warlock; cast time: 1.7 sec | A different rank or variant |
| #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 | cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #12471 | difficulty rows: Normal; cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip text | A per-difficulty version |
| #12739 | cast time: 3 sec; 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 | cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #15472 | cast time: 3 sec; 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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