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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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2 sec6 sec cooldownMedium Range

Strikes an enemy with a lightning bolt that arcs to another nearby enemy.

Chain Lightning

Tooltip

Strikes an enemy with a lightning bolt that arcs to another nearby enemy. The spell affects targets, causing Nature damage to each.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 185. It scales with 1 times spell power. It jumps to up to 3 targets.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with a 2 sec cast, a range of 30 yards and a 6 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 185) jumping to up to 3 targets.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70003. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolNature
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time2 sec
Cooldown6 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 185
Spell power coefficient: 1
Chain targets: 3

Raw client values from the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70003. 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 179 separate Spell records named "Chain Lightning". This page is record #23106. 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
#16033cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#16921cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#20831cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#21179cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#22355cast time: instantA variant record
#23206cast time: 3 secA variant record
#24680cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#25021cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#27567no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#28167cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#28293cast time: 1 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#28900effect 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.

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