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Firebolt

Spell

Firebolt

Fire

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Mage

Instant cast8 sec cooldownMedium Range

Blasts a target for Fire damage.

Firebolt

Tooltip

Blasts a target for Fire damage.

How it works

Each cast of Firebolt costs 80 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2).

What it does

Firebolt is a Fire spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and an 8 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Fire damage.

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
Cost80 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown8 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 1421
Effect #1School Damage (2)

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.

How to learn

Items that grant this spell

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 65 separate Spell records named "Firebolt". This page is record #23267. 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
#13441used by: Cast by Orb of FireA helper record another spell casts
#13442cast time: 3 secA variant record
#18083used by: Cast by Galgann's Firehammer; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#18086cast time: 3 secA variant record
#18112used by: Cast by AshbringerA helper record another spell casts
#18833used by: Talent: WarriorA different owner
#20801cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 96.5 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#30050cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 2.42 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#30180cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 9.3 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#36227cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 141.5 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#36905cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 27.29 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#36906cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 27.29 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning

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 sighted1 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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