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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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0.5 secVision Range

Strikes an enemy with a blast of lightning that inflicts 3700 to 4300 Nature damage.

Chain Lightning

Tooltip

Strikes an enemy with a blast of lightning that inflicts 3700 to 4300 Nature damage. The bolt will arc to additional nearby enemies, inflicting 100% more Nature damage to each successive target.

How it works

Each cast of Chain Lightning costs 150 Mana.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 3700. It scales with 1 times spell power. It jumps to up to 8 targets.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with a 0.5 sec cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 3700) jumping to up to 8 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
Cost150 Mana
Range100 yards (Vision Range)
Cast time0.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 3700
Spell power coefficient: 1
Chain targets: 8

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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Chain Lightning appears in: 1 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

  • Thorim in Ulduar
    Journal section: Stage Two: Keeper of Storms > Thorim
    Encounter creatures: Sif, ThorimRaid boss ability

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 179 separate Spell records named "Chain Lightning". This page is record #62131. 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
#59273cast time: 1 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#59517cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#59716cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#59844cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#61528cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#61879journal encounter: The Assembly of Iron; cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA different caster
#63479cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#64213cast time: 1 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#64215cast time: 1 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#64390different tooltip textA variant record
#64758difficulty rows: 10 Player; cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#64759difficulty rows: 25 Player; journal encounter: Razorscale; cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version

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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