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Lightning Nova

Spell

Lightning Nova

Nature

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Instant castSelf Only

Lightning crackles around the caster, inflicting 5000 Nature damage and knocking back enemies.

Lightning Nova

Tooltip

Lightning crackles around the caster, inflicting 5000 Nature damage and knocking back enemies.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 5000. Its area radius is 10 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 100. Its area radius is 10 yards.

What it does

Lightning Nova is a Nature spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 5000) in a 10 yard radius and has a Knock Back effect in a 10 yard radius.

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 5000
Radius: 10 yards
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 100
Misc value: 75
Radius: 10 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 21 separate Spell records named "Lightning Nova". This page is record #87768. 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
#52960journal encounter: Loken; cast time: 5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#56495used by: Cast by Lightning Nova; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#56502school: Physical; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#57322used by: Cast by Lightning Nova Periodic; school: none; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#59835cast time: 4 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#64216cast time: 5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#65279cast time: 5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#77601cast time: 4 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#84544effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#136489school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#136490used by: Cast by Lightning Nova; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#140574school: 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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