Spellbook

The Spellbook since patch 11.0.0.

The expanded view since patch 11.0.0.

The Spellbook contains a list of all spells and abilities known by the character. It is part of the Talents & Spellbook interface. The default keybinding is P.

The spellbook is divided into two categories: General, containing all of the character's guild perks, racial traits, general abilities such as the Riding skill, and other abilities obtained throughout the game; and one tab for the class, where all of your class-specific spells and abilities can be found. A paladin, for example, would have a General tab, then Holy, Retribution, and Protection tabs as well.

Abilities that are currently known by the character are listed first in the spellboook; active abilities coming first, followed by passive abilities, in alphabetical order. Following these are the abilities that have not yet been learnt, in order of the level at which they became or will become available to learn. Abilities that are available to learn but have not yet been learnt are illuminated, with a trainer icon next to them; abilities not yet available at your level are faded, but still display full information on the ability, as well as the level at which they will become available.

Each spell icon can be dragged onto an action bar. Where ranks exist, the highest rank of an ability is always shown. Abilities not yet available at your level cannot be dragged to actions bars.

General

This tab contains all abilities that are available to the character and are not class-specific. This section can consist of:

• [Auto Attack]
• Racial traits (race-specific abilities and passives)
• Languages spell, with listed known languages (and learnable ones such as Furbolg).
• Guild Perks, known if part of a guild.
• Expansion-specific abilities (such as the unlockable [Mechanism Bypass] ability)
• Obtainable Profession abilities through the Profession specializations (such as the [Overload Elemental Herb] for Herbalists)
• Warbands, includes [Warband Bank Distance Inhibitor] and the [Warband Map to Everywhere All At Once]
• Current riding skill and expansion-specific riding skills
• Skyriding abilities
• Equipped item abilities (such as [Undercurrent] from the  [Underlight Angler])
• Teleport dungeon abilities (such as spells like the [Path of the Primal Prison])

Class and specialization

This section contains information that is out-of-date.

Characters under level 10 have only a General tab and a <class> tab corresponding to their class. In this tab all non-specialization-specific abilities are listed.

Once level 10 is reach, the single <class> tab is replaced by three tabs, one for each specialization. Each tab lists all of the class abilities available to that specialization.

The tab corresponding to your current active specialization is always displayed just below the General tab, while those corresponding to the other specializations are positioned a small distance below. While your current spec's tab is fully visible, those corresponding to the other specs are greyed-out, although full information is still available through them.

Although each tab displays the abilities available to that specialization, for characters with Dual Talent Specialization, abilities generated by your choices in talents (and possibly also glyphs) in your current spec are duplicated in each tab, while such abilities available in your alternate spec are not displayed until that specialization has been made active. This means that while the current spec's tab is accurate, it is not possible to use the spellbook to accurately view the exact abilities available to you in your alternate specialization. This may be a bug.

The non-current tabs also do not maintain the separation between abilities that you have and have not learnt; all active abilities are listed first, followed by passive abilities, in alphabetical order, regardless of whether your character knows them or not. However, abilities not yet available at your level still display their level requirement, allowing you to tell them apart.

Pet tab

Visible only to hunters and warlocks, the pet tab shows players what the currently active pet is capable of doing and what passive buffs they're receiving from their talents.

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  Their abilities since patch 10.0.0.
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  Their abilities since Cataclysm

Gallery

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  Since patch 10.0.0.
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  Other specializations being greyed out (patch 10.0.0)
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  Other specializations being greyed out (Cata-BfA)
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  Since patch 7.0.3.
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  Since Cataclysm
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  Second half of beta to Wrath of the Lich King
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  During the vanilla alpha and first half of the beta.

Patch changes

• Patch 11.0.0 (2024-07-23):
  • UI revamped and merged into the Talents interface, naming it the Talents & Spellbook interface.
  • Added option to hide passives and a search bar.
  • Specializations are no longer separated by a tab, instead the current specialization is shown as the second section (the first being abilities available to all specs) then the last few sections being the other specs.
    
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): UI refresh.
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Spellbook now includes a class section that contains spells available regardless of the chosen specialization.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Spellbooks have been updated to reflect changes to core abilities, and now include a brief overview of specializations.

  New tabs "Core Abilities" and "What has changed?" added. The tabs for non-current specializations are now greyed-out, and placed slightly below the General and current specialization tabs.
  

• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Redesigned.

  Now also has the Professions tab, Mounts tab, and Companions tab. It is also the location of the Guild Perks.