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Lightning Blast

Spell

Lightning Blast

Nature

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1.5 secLong Range

Blasts a target for 16000 to 24000 Nature damage.

Lightning Blast

Tooltip

Blasts a target for 16000 to 24000 Nature damage.

How it works

Each cast of Lightning Blast costs 1000 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 16000.

What it does

Lightning Blast is a Nature spell with a 1.5 sec cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 16000).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70631. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolNature
Cost1000 Mana
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast time1.5 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 16000

Raw client values from the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70631. 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 34 separate Spell records named "Lightning Blast". This page is record #138374. 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
#83070difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); cast time: 4 sec; effect types: School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#88332cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#88357difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 1 sec; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#94731used by: Cast by Lightning Blast; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#125076cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#126145used by: Cast by Bind Lightning; cast time: instant; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#136439cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#138014cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#145002no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#191726effect types: noneA different effect setup
#191733effect types: noneA different effect setup
#195108effect types: noneA 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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