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Shadow Bolt

Spell

Shadow Bolt

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2.2 secMedium Range

Sends a shadowy bolt at the enemy causing Shadow damage.

Shadow Bolt

Tooltip

Sends a shadowy bolt at the enemy causing Shadow damage.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

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

What it does

Shadow Bolt is a Shadow spell with a 2.2 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Shadow 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

SchoolShadow
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time2.2 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 300 separate Spell records named "Shadow Bolt". This page is record #14122. 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
#12471cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#12739cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 30 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#13440used by: Cast by Grimclaw; cast time: instantA helper record another spell casts
#13480no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#14106no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#15232cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#15472cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#15537cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 746.5 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#16409used by: Cast by Runic Darkblade; cast time: instantA helper record another spell casts
#16783used by: Cast by Shadow BoltA helper record another spell casts
#16784used by: Cast by Shadow BoltA helper record another spell casts
#17393cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 26 (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 1.60.1.70338, 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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