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Shadow Shock

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Shadow Shock

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Instant castTwenty yards

Instantly lashes nearby enemies with dark magic, inflicting 10 Shadow damage.

Shadow Shock

Tooltip

Instantly lashes nearby enemies with dark magic, inflicting 10 Shadow damage.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 10. Its area radius is 20 yards.

What it does

Shadow Shock is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 20 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 10) in a 20 yard radius.

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 timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 10
Radius: 20 yards

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 30 separate Spell records named "Shadow Shock". This page is record #17399. 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
#16583effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#17234effect values: 297 (this record: 10); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#17289effect values: 447 (this record: 10); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#17439effect values: 7 (this record: 10); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#18663effect values: 7 (this record: 10); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#19460effect values: 147 (this record: 10); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#20603effect values: 13.42 (this record: 10)Different tuning
#22575cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#24458effect types: School Damage, effect 77; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#24459effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#24616effect values: 297 (this record: 10); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#29712effect values: 49.61 (this record: 10); 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 1.60.1.70532, 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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