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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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2 secVision Range

Strikes an enemy with a blast of lightning that inflicts lethal Nature damage.

Chain Lightning

Tooltip

Strikes an enemy with a blast of lightning that inflicts lethal Nature damage. The bolt will arc to additional nearby enemies, inflicting 50% more Nature damage to each successive target.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Instakill (effect type 1). It jumps to up to 2 targets.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with a 2 sec cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it kills the target outright jumping to up to 2 targets.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70268. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolNature
Range100 yards (Vision Range)
Cast time2 sec
Effect #1Instakill (1)
Chain targets: 2

Raw client values from the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70268. 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 179 separate Spell records named "Chain Lightning". This page is record #103637. 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
#82503school: Physical; cast time: 1 secA variant record
#83282difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#83300cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#83455difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#84829cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#85715cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#87622difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; journal encounter: Asaad, Caliph of Zephyrs; cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#94396cast time: 4 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#97496cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#99373used by: Cast by Thrall's Air Aura; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#103638cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#104130cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA 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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