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Holy Nova

Spell

Holy Nova

Holy

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Priest

Instant castSelf Only

Causes an explosion of divine light, inflicting 1000 Holy damage to nearby enemies and reducing the caster's threat level.

Holy Nova

Tooltip

Causes an explosion of divine light, inflicting 1000 Holy damage to nearby enemies and reducing the caster's threat level.

How it works

Each cast of Holy Nova costs 315 Mana. Its dispel type is client id 1. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

Holy Nova is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 1000. It scales with 0.071 times spell power. Its area radius is 15 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Heal (effect type 10). Its base value is 2000. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 15 yards.

What it does

Holy Nova is a Holy spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Holy damage (base value 1000) in a 15 yard radius and heals (base value 2000) in a 15 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

SchoolHoly
Cost315 Mana
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Dispel typeDispel type id 1
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 1000
Spell power coefficient: 0.071
Radius: 15 yards
Effect #2Heal (10)
Value: 2000
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 15 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

Holy Nova sounds

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

HolyImpactDDHighSoundKit 1272

  1. Holyimpactddhigh3.2s · ID 569771 · spells/directdamage
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

Holy CastSoundKit 2562

  1. Holycast0.9s · ID 569763 · spells/cast
    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 32 separate Spell records named "Holy Nova". This page is record #23858. 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
#20694effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#23455subtext: Rank 1; effect types: HealA different rank or variant
#29514effect types: noneA different effect setup
#34944effect types: noneA different effect setup
#35740effect types: noneA different effect setup
#36985effect types: noneA different effect setup
#37669effect types: noneA different effect setup
#38589effect types: noneA different effect setup
#40096effect types: noneA different effect setup
#41380effect types: noneA different effect setup
#46564effect types: noneA different effect setup
#57771effect types: noneA 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.

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 sighted2 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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