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Shadow Bolt

Spell

Shadow Bolt

Shadow

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1.5 secTwenty yards

Hurls a bolt of dark energy, inflicting 200 Shadow damage to the caster's current target.

Shadow Bolt

Tooltip

Hurls a bolt of dark energy, inflicting 200 Shadow damage to the caster's current target.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Weapon % Damage (effect type 31). Its base value is 200.

What it does

Shadow Bolt is a Shadow spell with a 1.5 sec cast and a range of 20 yards. When cast it deals a percentage of weapon damage (base value 200).

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

SchoolShadow
Range20 yards (Twenty yards)
Cast time1.5 sec
Effect #1Weapon % Damage (31)
Value: 200

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 300 separate Spell records named "Shadow Bolt". This page is record #113809. 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
#41957cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#43330cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 400 (this record: 200); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#43649journal encounter: Skarvald & Dalronn; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#43667journal encounter: Prince Keleseth; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#45055used by: Cast by Augment Pain; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#45679cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#45680used by: Cast by Shadow Bolt; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#47076cast time: 1 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#47248effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#49084cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#50455cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#51363cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School 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.

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