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The Burning CrusadeThe Burning Crusade 2.5.6 · Outland, the Dark Portal and Shattrath · client build 2.5.6.70006Also on WoW Forever · Classic Era · Wrath of the Lich King · MoP Classic · Retail (Midnight)
Shadow Bolt

Spell

Shadow Bolt

Shadow

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Instant castLonger Range

Hurls a bolt of dark magic at an enemy, inflicting Shadow damage.

Shadow Bolt

Tooltip

Hurls a bolt of dark magic at an enemy, inflicting Shadow damage.

How it works

Each cast of Shadow Bolt costs 90 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

Shadow Bolt is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 2070. It scales with 1 times spell power.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 77, which the datamine does not name.

What it does

Shadow Bolt is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 45 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 2070).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Burning Crusade client, build 2.5.6.70006. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
Cost90 Mana
Range45 yards (Longer Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 2070
Spell power coefficient: 1
Effect #2Effect 77

Raw client values from the Burning Crusade client, build 2.5.6.70006. 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 300 separate Spell records named "Shadow Bolt". This page is record #29317. 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
#26006cast time: 1 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#29487cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#29626duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#29640used by: Cast by Shadow Bolt; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#29927cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#30055cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#30505used by: Cast by Dark Spin; effect types: School DamageA helper record another spell casts
#30686cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#31618cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#31627cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#32666effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#32860cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: School Damage, 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.

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