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Corpse Explosion

Spell

Corpse Explosion

Shadow

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Instant castMedium Range

Causes a corpse to explode, inflicting 1500 Shadow damage on enemies near the corpse.

Corpse Explosion

Tooltip

Causes a corpse to explode, inflicting 1500 Shadow damage on enemies near the corpse.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 1500. Its area radius is 5 yards.

What it does

Corpse Explosion is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 1500) in a 5 yard radius.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 1500
Radius: 5 yards

Raw client values from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Sounds

Corpse Explosion sounds

The sounds the game plays when Corpse Explosion is cast and lands, straight from the client. Press play, or open a kit for every file and the download formats.

RendTargetSoundKit 3134

  1. Rendtarget0.7s · ID 568003 · spells
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

Joined in the WoW Forever beta client: spell visual, then visual kit, then SoundKit, then the sound file. Browse every game sound in the sound archive.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 23 separate Spell records named "Corpse Explosion". This page is record #17616. 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
#43999effect types: noneA different effect setup
#53717effect types: noneA different effect setup
#61614used by: Cast by Corpse Explosion; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#81876effect types: noneA different effect setup
#150589effect types: noneA different effect setup
#150596effect types: noneA different effect setup
#151224effect types: noneA different effect setup
#184003effect types: noneA different effect setup
#184005effect types: noneA different effect setup
#184018effect types: noneA different effect setup
#262424effect types: noneA different effect setup
#262425used by: Cast by Corpse Explosion; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts

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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70532, 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

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