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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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3 sec6 sec cooldownMedium Range

Strikes an enemy with a lightning bolt that arcs to another nearby enemy.

Chain Lightning

Tooltip

Strikes an enemy with a lightning bolt that arcs to another nearby enemy. The spell affects targets, causing Nature damage to each.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 49. It scales with 1 times spell power. It jumps to up to 3 targets.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with a 3 sec cast, a range of 30 yards and a 6 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 49) jumping to up to 3 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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time3 sec
Cooldown6 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 49
Spell power coefficient: 1
Chain targets: 3

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 #42441. 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
#37448school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: effect 77A different effect setup
#39066cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#39945journal encounter: Shade of Akama; different tooltip textA different caster
#40536cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#41183different tooltip textA variant record
#42804no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#43435cast time: 2 secA variant record
#44318cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#45868used by: Cast by Periodic Random Lightning (20 yd, 1 sec); cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#46380cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#48140cast time: 1 secA variant record
#48699cast time: instant; 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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