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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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1 secMedium Range

Strikes nearby enemies with a lightning bolt that arcs to another nearby enemies.

Chain Lightning

Tooltip

Strikes nearby enemies with a lightning bolt that arcs to another nearby enemies. The spell affects targets, inflicting greater Nature damage to each successive target.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 875. It scales with 1 times spell power. It jumps to up to 10 targets.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with a 1 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 875) jumping to up to 10 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 time1 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 875
Spell power coefficient: 1
Chain targets: 10

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 #28293. 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
#22355cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#23106cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#23206cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#24680cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#25021cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#27567cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#28167cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#28900effect types: noneA different effect setup
#31330effect types: noneA different effect setup
#31717effect types: noneA different effect setup
#32337effect types: noneA different effect setup
#33643effect 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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