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Lightning Blast

Spell

Lightning Blast

Nature

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4 secTwo-Hundred Yard Range

Blasts an enemy with concentrated lightning, inflicting 108000 to 132000 Nature damage.

Lightning Blast

Tooltip

Blasts an enemy with concentrated lightning, inflicting 108000 to 132000 Nature damage.

How it works

Lightning Blast is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 108000. Its area radius is 50000 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64). Its area radius is 50000 yards. It triggers Lightning Blast.

What it does

Lightning Blast is a Nature spell with a 4 sec cast and a range of 200 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 108000) in a 50000 yard radius. It also casts Lightning Blast (record #94731).

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
Range200 yards (Two-Hundred Yard Range)
Cast time4 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 108000
Radius: 50000 yards
Effect #2Trigger Spell (64)
Radius: 50000 yards
Trigger spell: Lightning Blast

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 #83070. 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
#43996cast time: 2 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#62053school: Arcane; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#62054journal encounter: The Assembly of Iron; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#63491used by: Cast by Lightning Elemental Passive; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#88332cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#88357difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 1 sec; effect types: School Damage; 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; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#126145used by: Cast by Bind Lightning; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#136439cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#138014cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#138374cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; 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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