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Shadow Shock

Spell

Shadow Shock

Shadow

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Instant castSelf Only

Instantly lashes nearby enemies with dark magic, inflicting Shadow damage.

Shadow Shock

Tooltip

Instantly lashes nearby enemies with dark magic, inflicting Shadow damage.

How it works

Each cast of Shadow Shock costs 135 Mana. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 800. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 20 yards.

What it does

Shadow Shock is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Shadow damage (base value 800) in a 20 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
Cost135 Mana
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 800
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 20 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

Shadow Shock sounds

The sounds the game plays when Shadow Shock 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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 30 separate Spell records named "Shadow Shock". This page is record #20603. 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
#16583effect values: 660.71 (this record: 800); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#17234effect values: 1321.42 (this record: 800); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#17289effect values: 1982.12 (this record: 800); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#17399effect values: 1321.42 (this record: 800)Different tuning
#17439effect values: 993.99 (this record: 800); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#18663effect values: 1321.42 (this record: 800); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#19460effect values: 2642.83 (this record: 800); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#22575effect values: 1321.42 (this record: 800); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#24458effect types: School Damage, effect 77; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#24459effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#24616effect values: 1321.42 (this record: 800)Different tuning
#29712effect 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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