Skip to content
Classic EraVanilla 1.15 · Anniversary, Hardcore and Era realms · Classic Era auction houseAlso on WoW Forever · The Burning Crusade · Wrath of the Lich King · MoP Classic · Retail (Midnight)
Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

Advertisement

Shaman

Instant castMedium Range

Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing 189 to 212 Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies.

Chain Lightning

Tooltip

Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing 189 to 212 Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Each jump reduces the damage by 30%. Affects total targets.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 189. It scales with 0.357 times spell power. It jumps to up to 3 targets.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 189) jumping to up to 3 targets.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70576. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolNature
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 189
Spell power coefficient: 0.357
Chain targets: 3

Raw client values from the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70576. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Related

More Elemental Combat spells

Ancestral GuidanceAncestral Guidance
Call of FlameCall of Flame
Call of ThunderCall of Thunder
Chain LightningChain Lightning
ConcussionConcussion
ConvectionConvection
Earthbind TotemEarthbind Totem
Earth's GraspEarth's Grasp
Earth ShockEarth Shock

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 179 separate Spell records named "Chain Lightning". This page is record #408482. 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
#83282effect types: noneA different effect setup
#83300effect types: noneA different effect setup
#83455effect types: noneA different effect setup
#84829effect types: noneA different effect setup
#85715effect types: noneA different effect setup
#87622journal encounter: Asaad, Caliph of Zephyrs; effect types: noneA different caster
#94396effect types: noneA different effect setup
#97496effect types: noneA different effect setup
#99373used by: Cast by Thrall's Air Aura; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#103637effect types: noneA different effect setup
#103638effect types: noneA different effect setup
#104130effect 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.

Comments

Read player comments on Chain Lightning at Wowhead (opens Wowhead in a new tab)