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Ball Lightning

Spell

Ball Lightning

Nature

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Paladin

Instant castLonger Range

Inflicts 850 Nature damage every 1 sec over 8 sec to enemies who enter the area.

Ball Lightning

Tooltip

Inflicts 850 Nature damage every 1 sec over 8 sec to enemies who enter the area.

How it works

Each cast of Ball Lightning costs 300 Mana. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

Ball Lightning is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is Persistent Area Aura (effect type 27). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 850 per tick. Its area radius is 4 yards. It ticks every 1 sec, 8 times over the full 8 sec (6800 base in total).
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its area radius is 6 yards.

What it does

Ball Lightning is a Nature spell with an instant cast, a range of 45 yards and effects that last 8 sec. When cast it leaves a persistent area effect on the ground in a 4 yard radius every 1 sec.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70631. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolNature
Cost300 Mana
Range45 yards (Longer Range)
Cast timeInstant
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration8 sec
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Persistent Area Aura (27)
Aura type id 3
Value: 850
Radius: 4 yards
Period: every 1 sec
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Radius: 6 yards

Raw client values from the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70631. 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 82 separate Spell records named "Ball Lightning". This page is record #56319. 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
#28299cast time: 1 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#52779used by: Cast by Ball Lightning; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#52780cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#59800cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#59801used by: Cast by Ball Lightning; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#64888used by: Cast by Lightning Charged; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#64974used by: Cast by Lightning Charged; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#136464duration: none; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#136470school: Physical; cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Dummy, Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#136534school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#136539used by: Cast by Ball Lightning; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, DummyA helper record another spell casts
#136544school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA 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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