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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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Instant castSelf Only

Fires a blast of lightning at enemies who have been attuned to attract electricity, dealing 13300 to 14700 Nature damage and bouncing to additional nearby targets.

Chain Lightning

Tooltip

Fires a blast of lightning at enemies who have been attuned to attract electricity, dealing 13300 to 14700 Nature damage and bouncing to additional nearby targets.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 83282. Its area radius is 200 yards.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster).

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Dummy (3)
Value: 83282
Radius: 200 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 #83300. 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
#76578difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#76680difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#79086cast time: 6 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#79913cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#80646difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 0.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#80998effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#82503school: Physical; cast time: 1 sec; effect types: InstakillA different effect setup
#83282difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#83455difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#84829effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#85715cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#87622difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; journal encounter: Asaad, Caliph of Zephyrs; cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; 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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