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Shield Bash

Spell

Shield Bash

Physical

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Instant castCombat Range

Bashes an enemy with the caster's shield, inflicting Physical damage and interrupting the spell being cast for 8 sec.

Shield Bash

Tooltip

Bashes an enemy with the caster's shield, inflicting Physical damage and interrupting the spell being cast for 8 sec.

How it works

Shield Bash is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Interrupt Cast (effect type 68). Its base value is 5. It applies the interrupted mechanic.
  2. Effect 2 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 58.4697. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Shield Bash is a Physical spell with an instant cast, a range of 5 yards and effects that last 8 sec. When cast it interrupts spellcasting with the interrupted mechanic and deals Physical damage (base value 58.4697).

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

SchoolPhysical
Range5 yards (Combat Range)
Cast timeInstant
Duration8 sec
Effect #1Interrupt Cast (68)
Value: 5
Mechanic: Interrupted
Effect #2School Damage (2)
Value: 58.4697
Spell power coefficient: 1

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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 51 separate Spell records named "Shield Bash". This page is record #11972. 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
#33871effect types: noneA different effect setup
#35178effect types: noneA different effect setup
#36988effect types: noneA different effect setup
#38233effect types: noneA different effect setup
#41180journal encounter: Shade of Akama; effect types: noneA different caster
#41197effect types: noneA different effect setup
#70964effect types: noneA different effect setup
#72194effect types: noneA different effect setup
#79732effect types: noneA different effect setup
#82800effect types: noneA different effect setup
#101817effect types: noneA different effect setup
#117831effect 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 1.60.1.70450, 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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