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Shadow Cleave

Spell

Shadow Cleave

Shadow

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Warlock

Instant cast6 sec cooldownCombat Range

Punish up to nearby enemies with a Shadow lash, dealing 8 to each.

Shadow Cleave

Tooltip

Punish up to nearby enemies with a Shadow lash, dealing 8 to each.

Shadow Cleave benefits from and triggers most talents and effects that Shadow Bolt benefits from and triggers.

Hitting a target with Shadow Cleave also grants you 4 Spell Damage for each point of your defense skill beyond. Lasts 15 sec.

How it works

Each cast of Shadow Cleave costs 20 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 8. It scales with 0.1 times spell power. It jumps to up to 10 targets.

What it does

Shadow Cleave is a Shadow spell with an instant cast, a range of 5 yards and a 6 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 8) jumping to up to 10 targets.

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
Cost20 Mana
Range5 yards (Combat Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown6 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 8
Spell power coefficient: 0.1
Chain targets: 10

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

Shadow Cleave sounds

The sounds the game plays when Shadow Cleave 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

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.

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Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 12 separate Spell records named "Shadow Cleave". This page is record #403839. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#29832effect types: noneA different effect setup
#30495effect types: noneA different effect setup
#31629effect types: noneA different effect setup
#32916effect types: noneA different effect setup
#69492effect types: noneA different effect setup
#70670effect types: noneA different effect setup
#215559effect types: noneA different effect setup
#224970effect types: noneA different effect setup
#224972used by: Cast by Shadow Cleave; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#224973effect types: noneA different effect setup
#251705effect types: noneA different effect setup
#265372effect 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 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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