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Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing 191 to 217 Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Each jump reduces the damage by 20%. Affects total targets.
How it works
Each cast of Chain Lightning costs 280 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.
- Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 191. It scales with 0.714 times spell power. It jumps to up to 3 targets.
What it does
Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with a 2.5 sec cast, a range of 30 yards and a 6 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 191) 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
| School | Nature |
|---|---|
| Cost | 280 Mana |
| Range | 30 yards (Medium Range) |
| Cast time | 2.5 sec |
| Cooldown | 6 sec |
| Global cooldown | 1.5 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Effect #1 | School Damage (2) Value: 191 Spell power coefficient: 0.714 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
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 179 separate Spell records named "Chain Lightning". This page is record #421. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #12058 | cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #15117 | cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #15305 | cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #15659 | cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #16006 | cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #16033 | cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #16921 | cast time: instant; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #20831 | cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #21179 | cast time: instant; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #22355 | cast time: instant; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #23106 | cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #23206 | cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip text | A variant record |
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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