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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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6 secFifty Five Yards

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 92. 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 6 sec cast and a range of 55 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 92) 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
Range55 yards (Fifty Five Yards)
Cast time6 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 92
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 #79086. 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
#74019cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#75362cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#75813difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#76578difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#76680difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: instant; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#79913cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#80646difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 0.5 sec; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#80998cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#82503school: Physical; cast time: 1 sec; effect types: InstakillA different effect setup
#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

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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