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Shadow Bolt

Spell

Shadow Bolt

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2 secMedium Range

Hurls a bolt of dark magic at an enemy, inflicting 73.972 Shadow damage.

Shadow Bolt

Tooltip

Hurls a bolt of dark magic at an enemy, inflicting 73.972 Shadow damage.

How it works

Each cast of Shadow Bolt costs 85 Mana.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 73.972. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Shadow Bolt is a Shadow spell with a 2 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 73.972).

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
Cost85 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time2 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 73.972
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 #36972. 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
#36714cast time: instant; effect values: 18.6 (this record: 73.97); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#36868cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 24.81 (this record: 73.97)Different tuning
#36986cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 22.33 (this record: 73.97)Different tuning
#36987cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 22.33 (this record: 73.97)Different tuning
#38378cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#38386cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 1797 (this record: 73.97); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#38628cast time: instant; effect values: 37.21 (this record: 73.97); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#38825cast time: instant; effect values: 36.16 (this record: 73.97); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#38892cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 43.41 (this record: 73.97)Different tuning
#39025cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 37.21 (this record: 73.97)Different tuning
#39026cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 37.21 (this record: 73.97)Different tuning
#39297cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 43.41 (this record: 73.97); 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.

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