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Shadow Bolt

Spell

Shadow Bolt

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Instant castLonger 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 37.209. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Shadow Bolt is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 45 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 37.209).

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
Range45 yards (Longer Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 37.209
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 #38628. 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
#36972cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 73.97 (this record: 37.21); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#36986cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 22.33 (this record: 37.21); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#36987cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 22.33 (this record: 37.21); different tooltip textDifferent 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: 37.21)Different tuning
#38825effect values: 36.16 (this record: 37.21)Different tuning
#38892cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 43.41 (this record: 37.21); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#39025cast time: 1 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#39026cast time: 1 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#39297cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 43.41 (this record: 37.21)Different tuning
#39309cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 46.51 (this record: 37.21)Different tuning
#40185journal encounter: Teron Gorefiend; effect values: 17.92 (this record: 37.21)A different caster

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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