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Shadowfiend

Spell

Shadowfiend

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Priest

Instant castSelf Only

Shadow Word: Death has a 40% chance to summon a Shadowfiend for 5 sec when damaging targets below 20% health.

Shadowfiend

Tooltip

Shadow Word: Death has a 40% chance to summon a Shadowfiend for 5 sec when damaging targets below 20% health.

Summons a Shadowfiend to attack your target for 5 sec.

Generates 1 Insanity each time the Shadowfiend attacks.

How it works

Shadowfiend is built from 3 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 5.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 20.
  3. Effect 3 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 4. Its base value is 40.

What it does

Shadowfiend is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it applies an aura.

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Value: 5
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Value: 20
Effect #3Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 4
Value: 40

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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Shadowfiend appears in: 3 talents and 1 spell that casts it.

Talents

  • Shadowfiend for Priest (Discipline, Holy, Shadow)Talent
  • Shadowfiend for Priest (Discipline, Holy, Shadow) (definition #139619)Talent
  • Shadowfiend (a talent definition no current talent tree places)Talent

Spells that cast it

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 5 separate Spell records named "Shadowfiend". This page is record #34433. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#132603duration: 15 sec; effect types: Summon, Trigger Spell, Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#172884duration: 12 sec; effect types: Summon; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#398367duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#1280172duration: 5 sec; effect types: Summon, Dummy, Trigger Spell, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup

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 sighted2 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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