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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 secMedium Range

Hurls a bolt of dark magic at an enemy, inflicting 5850 to 7150 Shadow damage.

Shadow Bolt

Tooltip

Hurls a bolt of dark magic at an enemy, inflicting 5850 to 7150 Shadow damage.

How it works

Each cast of Shadow Bolt costs 85 Mana. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 5850. 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 30 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 5850).

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
Cost85 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time2 sec
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 5850
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 #36972. 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
#36714cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#36868cast time: 1 secA variant record
#36986cast time: 1 secA variant record
#36987cast time: 1 secA variant record
#38378cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#38386cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#38628cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#38825cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#38892cast time: 1 secA variant record
#39025cast time: 1 secA variant record
#39026cast time: 1 secA variant record
#39297cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA 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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