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Chaos Bolt

Spell

Chaos Bolt

FireNatureFrostShadowArcane

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Warlock

Instant castLong Range

Unleashes a devastating blast of chaos, causing Shadow damage.

Chaos Bolt

Tooltip

Unleashes a devastating blast of chaos, causing Shadow damage. Chaos Bolt always critically strikes and your critical strike chance increases its damage.

If the target has less than 20% health, the Soul Shards will be refunded.

How it works

Chaos Bolt is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 0.0001. It scales with 2.275 times spell power.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 3. It scales with 0.14 times spell power. It ticks every 1 sec.
  3. Effect 3 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 20.

What it does

Chaos Bolt is a Fire, Nature, Frost, Shadow and Arcane spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Fire, Nature, Frost, Shadow and Arcane damage (base value 0.0001) and applies an aura every 1 sec.

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

SchoolFire, Nature, Frost, Shadow, Arcane
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 0.0001
Spell power coefficient: 2.275
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 3
Spell power coefficient: 0.14
Period: every 1 sec
Effect #3Dummy (3)
Value: 20

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 43 separate Spell records named "Chaos Bolt". This page is record #196670. 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
#178076school: Fire; cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#183227school: Shadow; cast time: 5 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#183346school: Shadow; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#185812used by: Cast by Chaos Volley; school: Physical; duration: 20 sec; effect types: SummonA helper record another spell casts
#186523school: Shadow; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#186947school: Shadow; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#189992school: Shadow; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#192956school: Shadow; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#193022school: Shadow; cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#205121school: Physical, Holy, Fire, Nature, Frost, Shadow, Arcane; cast time: 5 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#211571school: Physical, Holy, Fire, Nature, Frost, Shadow, Arcane; cast time: 3 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#213229duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Dummy, effect 137; 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.

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