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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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2 sec1.5 sec cooldownLong Range

Inflicts 74000 to 86000 Nature damage and jumps to another target within 5 yards.

Chain Lightning

Tooltip

Inflicts 74000 to 86000 Nature damage and jumps to another target within 5 yards. Affects total targets, increasing damage by 50% per jump.

How it works

Spells that share its cooldown category wait 5 sec after it is cast. It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 74000. It jumps to up to 3 targets.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with a 2 sec cast, a range of 8-40 yards and a 1.5 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 74000) jumping to up to 3 targets.

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
Range8-40 yards (Long Range)
Cast time2 sec
Cooldown1.5 sec
Category cooldown5 sec
Global cooldownNone
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 74000
Chain targets: 3

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 179 separate Spell records named "Chain Lightning". This page is record #136480. 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
#83282difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); cast time: instant; 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; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#84829cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#85715cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#87622difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; journal encounter: Asaad, Caliph of Zephyrs; cast time: 2.5 sec; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#94396cast time: 4 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#97496cast time: 2.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#99373used by: Cast by Thrall's Air Aura; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#103637effect types: Instakill; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#103638cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#104130cast time: 2.5 sec; different tooltip textA 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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