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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, inflicting less Nature damage to each successive target.

How it works

Each cast of Chain Lightning costs 30 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  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
Cost30 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time3 sec
Cooldown6 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
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 #85715. 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
#76680difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: instant; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#79086cast time: 6 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#79913no compared field differsA duplicate client 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
#84829cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#87622difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; journal encounter: Asaad, Caliph of Zephyrs; cast time: 2.5 secA per-difficulty version
#94396cast time: 4 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup

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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