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Wrath of the Lich KingWrath of the Lich King era data from Blizzard's titan client, build 3.80.2.69874Also on WoW Forever · Classic Era · The Burning Crusade · MoP Classic · Retail (Midnight)
Shadow Bolt

Spell

Shadow Bolt

Shadow

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2 secVision 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.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 255. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Shadow Bolt is a Shadow spell with a 2 sec cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 255).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Wrath of the Lich King client, build 3.80.2.69874. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
Cost90 Mana
Range100 yards (Vision Range)
Cast time2 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 255
Spell power coefficient: 1

Raw client values from the Wrath of the Lich King client, build 3.80.2.69874. 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 #22677. 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
#18217cast time: 2.2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#19728cast time: 0.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#19729cast time: 0.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#20298cast time: 3 secA variant record
#20791cast time: 3 secA variant record
#20807cast time: 3 secA variant record
#20816cast time: 3 secA variant record
#20825cast time: 3 secA variant record
#21077cast time: 0.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#22336no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#24668no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#26006cast time: 1 secA 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.

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