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Shadow Bolt

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Shadow Bolt

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Instant castLong Range

Hurls a bolt of dark magic at an enemy, inflicting Shadow damage.

Shadow Bolt

Tooltip

Hurls a bolt of dark magic at an enemy, inflicting Shadow damage.

How it works

Each cast of Shadow Bolt costs 90 Mana.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 297. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Shadow Bolt is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 297).

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
Cost90 Mana
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 297
Spell power coefficient: 1

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 #18164. 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
#16783used by: Cast by Shadow Bolt; cast time: 2.2 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 297); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#16784used by: Cast by Shadow Bolt; cast time: 2.2 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 297); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#17393cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 26 (this record: 297); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#17435cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 25 (this record: 297); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#17483used by: Cast by Demonshear; duration: 6 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#18138cast time: 2.2 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 297); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#18205cast time: 2.2 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 297); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#18211used by: Cast by Doombringer; effect values: 0 (this record: 297); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#18214cast time: 2.2 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 297); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#18217cast time: 2.2 sec; effect values: 0 (this record: 297); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#19728cast time: 0.5 sec; effect values: 41.92 (this record: 297); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#19729cast time: 0.5 sec; effect values: 38.47 (this record: 297); 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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