Summon Skeleton

What it does

Summon Skeleton is a Frost spell with an instant cast and a range of 20 yards. When cast it summons a creature.

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 facts

SchoolFrost

Cast timeInstant

EffectSummon

RangeTwenty yards

Spell ID261

Datamined from the current retail game build. Numbers that scale with level or stats are shown at their base value.

Spell Details

School	Frost
Range	20 yards (Twenty yards)
Cast time	Instant
Effect #1	Summon (28) Value: 3 Misc value: 48, 61

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.

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The game client stores 35 separate Spell records named "Summon Skeleton". This page is record #261. 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
#8853	school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Summon Pet; different tooltip text	A different effect setup
#17204	school: Physical; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 30 sec; effect values: 1 (this record: 3); different tooltip text	Different tuning
#17490	school: Physical; duration: 1 min; effect values: 1 (this record: 3); different tooltip text	Different tuning
#20464	school: Physical; duration: 4 min; different tooltip text	A variant record
#29223	school: Physical; duration: 5 min; effect types: Summon, Summon	A different effect setup
#33984	used by: Cast by Raise Dead Template; school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect values: 1 (this record: 3); different tooltip text	A helper record another spell casts
#40270	school: Shadow; duration: 10 min; effect values: 1 (this record: 3)	Different tuning
#41074	used by: Cast by Raise Dead; school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect values: 1 (this record: 3); different tooltip text	A helper record another spell casts
#41174	school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect values: 0 (this record: 3); different tooltip text	Different tuning
#41948	school: Shadow; duration: 10 min; effect values: 1 (this record: 3)	Different tuning
#41949	school: Shadow; duration: 10 min; effect values: 1 (this record: 3)	Different tuning
#41950	school: Shadow; duration: 10 min; effect values: 1 (this record: 3)	Different 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.

Other versions

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70338, 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