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Holy Nova

Spell

Holy Nova

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Instant castSelf Only

Causes an explosion of divine light, inflicting 2.79484 Holy damage to nearby enemies and reducing the caster's threat level.

Holy Nova

Tooltip

Causes an explosion of divine light, inflicting 2.79484 Holy damage to nearby enemies and reducing the caster's threat level.

How it works

Each cast of Holy Nova costs 315 Mana. Its dispel type is client id 1.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 2.7948. It scales with 0.071 times spell power. Its area radius is 15 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 136, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 10. Its area radius is 15 yards.

What it does

Holy Nova is a Holy spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Holy damage (base value 2.7948) in a 15 yard radius.

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

SchoolHoly
Cost315 Mana
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 2.7948
Spell power coefficient: 0.071
Radius: 15 yards
Effect #2Effect 136
Value: 10
Radius: 15 yards

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 32 separate Spell records named "Holy Nova". This page is record #23858. 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
#20694effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#23455effect types: Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#29514effect types: School Damage, Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#34944effect types: School Damage, Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#35740effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#36985effect types: School Damage, HealA different effect setup
#37669effect types: School Damage, Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#38589effect types: School Damage, Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#40096effect types: School Damage, HealA different effect setup
#41380effect types: School Damage, Heal; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#46564cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage, HealA different effect setup
#57771effect types: DummyA 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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