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Cleave

Spell

Cleave

Physical

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Instant castCombat Range

Inflicts weapon damage plus additional damage to an enemy and its nearest allies, affecting targets and knocking them back.

Cleave

Tooltip

Inflicts weapon damage plus additional damage to an enemy and its nearest allies, affecting targets and knocking them back.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is Weapon Damage (effect type 58). Its base value is 0.6815. It scales with 1 times spell power. It jumps to up to 5 targets.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 250. It scales with 1 times spell power. It jumps to up to 5 targets.

What it does

Cleave is a Physical spell with an instant cast and a range of 5 yards. When cast it deals weapon damage (base value 0.6815) jumping to up to 5 targets and has a Knock Back effect jumping to up to 5 targets.

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 yards (Combat Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Weapon Damage (58)
Value: 0.6815
Spell power coefficient: 1
Chain targets: 5
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 250
Spell power coefficient: 1
Misc value: 150
Chain targets: 5

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 149 separate Spell records named "Cleave". This page is record #20666. 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
#15284cast time: 1 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#15496effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#16044effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#19632effect types: Weapon Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#19642effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#19983effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#20605effect types: Weapon Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#20677effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#20684effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#20691effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#26350effect types: Weapon Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#27794effect types: Weapon % Damage; 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 1.60.1.70532, 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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