Spell

Forked Lightning

Nature

Instant castMedium Range

Inflicts 1157 to 1343 Nature damage to enemies in a cone in front of the caster.

Forked Lightning

How it works

Each cast of Forked Lightning costs 150 Mana. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 1157. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 100 yards.

What it does

Forked Lightning is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 1157) in a 100 yard radius.

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	150 Mana
Range	30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time	Instant
GCD category	Category id 133
Proc chance	Always
Effect #1	School Damage (2) Value: 1157 Spell power coefficient: 1 Radius: 100 yards

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.

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 28 separate Spell records named "Forked Lightning". This page is record #24682. 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
#8435	cast time: 2 sec	A variant record
#12549	cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip text	A variant record
#20299	cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip text	A variant record
#22945	cast time: 1.5 sec	A variant record
#25034	cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip text	A variant record
#38145	effect types: none	A different effect setup
#40088	effect types: none	A different effect setup
#46150	effect types: none	A different effect setup
#53167	effect types: none	A different effect setup
#59152	effect types: none	A different effect setup
#63541	effect types: none	A different effect setup
#73546	effect types: none	A 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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Forked Lightning

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