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Boulder

Spell

Boulder

Physical

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3 secMonster Shoot

Hurls a boulder at an enemy, knocking it back and inflicting Physical damage.

Boulder

Tooltip

Hurls a boulder at an enemy, knocking it back and inflicting Physical damage.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 2 sec global cooldown.

Boulder is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 235.5. It scales with 1 times spell power.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 50. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Boulder is a Physical spell with a 3 sec cast and a range of 5-30 yards. When cast it deals Physical damage (base value 235.5) and has a Knock Back effect.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the current retail game build. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolPhysical
Range5-30 yards (Monster Shoot)
Cast time3 sec
Global cooldown2 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 1421
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 235.5
Spell power coefficient: 1
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 50
Spell power coefficient: 1
Misc value: 100

Raw client values from the current retail game build. 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 68 separate Spell records named "Boulder". This page is record #19701. 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
#9483cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#21071cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#21832cast time: 2 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: School Damage, Interrupt Cast, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#23391cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#23392cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#26616cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 95, 100 (this record: 235.5, 50); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#38765cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#41984cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#42139cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47252cast time: 1 sec; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47253used by: Cast by Boulder; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Instakill, School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#47800cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, effect 86; different tooltip textA 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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70338, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted2 effect rows in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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