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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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Instant castMedium 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, inflicting greater 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 24. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 90 yards.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 24) in a 90 yard radius.

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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 24
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 90 yards

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 #80998. 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
#75813difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#76578difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 2 secA per-difficulty version
#76680difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 PlayerA per-difficulty version
#79086cast time: 6 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#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
#82503school: Physical; cast time: 1 sec; effect types: InstakillA different effect setup
#83282difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#83300effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#83455difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 1.5 secA per-difficulty version
#84829no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#85715cast time: 3 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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