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Void Bolt

Spell

Void Bolt

Shadow

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Instant cast4 sec cooldownLong Range

Sends a bolt of pure void energy at the enemy, causing 5.8 Shadow damage and extending the duration of Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch on all nearby targets by 3 sec.

Void Bolt

Tooltip

Sends a bolt of pure void energy at the enemy, causing 5.8 Shadow damage and extending the duration of Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch on all nearby targets by 3 sec. Requires Voidform.

Generates 20 Insanity.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 5.8.
  2. Effect 2 is Trigger Missile (effect type 32). It triggers Void Bolt.
  3. Effect 3 is Energize (effect type 30). Its base value is 20.

What it does

Void Bolt is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 40 yards and a 4 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 5.8), launches a missile and restores a resource (base value 20). It also casts Void Bolt (record #301175).

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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown4 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 5.8
Effect #2Trigger Missile (32)
Trigger spell: Void Bolt
Effect #3Energize (30)
Value: 20
Misc value: 3

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 107 separate Spell records named "Void Bolt". This page is record #284610. 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
#267180journal encounter: Zek'voz, Herald of N'Zoth; cast time: 5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#268347journal encounter: Lord Stormsong; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#274703cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#277576school: Shadow, Arcane; cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#278434cast time: 4 sec; effect types: Weapon % DamageA different effect setup
#288039school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#294063cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#298025cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#301175used by: Cast by Void Bolt; effect types: effect 77; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#303504cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Weapon % DamageA different effect setup
#303923cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#304556cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Weapon % DamageA 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.

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