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Summon Skeleton

Spell

Summon Skeleton

Physical

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Instant castLong Range

Your attacks have a chance to summon a Skeleton that will protect you for 1 min.

Summon Skeleton

Tooltip

Your attacks have a chance to summon a Skeleton that will protect you for 1 min.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Summon (effect type 28). Its base value is 1. Its area radius is 2 yards.

What it does

Summon Skeleton is a spell with an instant cast, a range of 40 yards and effects that last 1 min. When cast it summons a creature in a 2 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

SchoolPhysical
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Duration1 min
Effect #1Summon (28)
Value: 1
Misc value: 11200, 4112
Radius: 2 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.

How to learn

Items that grant this spell

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 35 separate Spell records named "Summon Skeleton". This page is record #17490. 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
#261school: Frost; duration: none; effect values: 3 (this record: 1)Different tuning
#8853duration: until cancelled; effect types: Summon Pet; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#17204cast time: 2 sec; duration: 30 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#20464duration: 4 min; effect values: 3 (this record: 1); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#29223duration: 5 min; effect types: Summon, SummonA different effect setup
#33984used by: Cast by Raise Dead Template; duration: until cancelled; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#40270school: Shadow; duration: 10 minA variant record
#41074used by: Cast by Raise Dead; duration: until cancelled; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#41174duration: until cancelled; effect values: 0 (this record: 1); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#41948school: Shadow; duration: 10 minA variant record
#41949school: Shadow; duration: 10 minA variant record
#41950school: Shadow; duration: 10 minA variant record

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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