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Shadow Bolt

Spell

Shadow Bolt

Shadow

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0.5 secLong Range

Hurls a bolt of dark magic at an enemy, inflicting 2500 Shadow damage.

Shadow Bolt

Tooltip

Hurls a bolt of dark magic at an enemy, inflicting 2500 Shadow damage.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 2500. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Shadow Bolt is a Shadow spell with a 0.5 sec cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 2500).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70338. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast time0.5 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 2500
Spell power coefficient: 1

Raw client values from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70338. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Sounds

Shadow Bolt sounds

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

DeathCoiltargetSoundKit 743

  1. Deathcoiltarget2.2s · ID 568670 · spells
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

Precast Shadow LowSoundKit 745

  1. Precastshadowmagiclow6.6s · ID 569424 · spells
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

SPELL_Shadow_CastSoundKit 2560

  1. Shadowcast0.8s · ID 569766 · spells/cast
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

MissileShadowLoopSoundKit 3015

  1. Shadowmissileloop4.0s · ID 569778 · spells/missile
    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 300 separate Spell records named "Shadow Bolt". This page is record #19729. 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
#18164cast time: instant; effect values: 877.05 (this record: 2500); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#18205cast time: 2.2 sec; effect values: 70 (this record: 2500); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#18211used by: Cast by Doombringer; cast time: 2.2 sec; effect values: 200 (this record: 2500); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#18214cast time: 2.2 sec; effect values: 150 (this record: 2500); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#18217cast time: instant; effect values: 98 (this record: 2500); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#19728no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#20298cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 573 (this record: 2500); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#20791cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 502.84 (this record: 2500); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#20807cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 537.92 (this record: 2500); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#20816cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 573 (this record: 2500); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#20825cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 613.93 (this record: 2500); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#21077effect values: 1500 (this record: 2500)Different tuning

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 1.60.1.70338, 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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