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Lightning Bolt

Spell

Lightning Bolt

Nature

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Instant castLong Range

Blasts an enemy with lightning, inflicting Nature damage.

Lightning Bolt

Tooltip

Blasts an enemy with lightning, inflicting Nature damage.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 1573. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Lightning Bolt is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 1573).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70531. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolNature
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 1573
Spell power coefficient: 1

Raw client values from the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70531. 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 200 separate Spell records named "Lightning Bolt". This page is record #56891. 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
#54843subtext: Rank 1; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#55044different tooltip textA variant record
#56326cast time: 2 secA variant record
#57780cast time: 3 secA variant record
#57781cast time: 2.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#59006cast time: 2 secA variant record
#59024cast time: 2 secA variant record
#59081cast time: 2 secA variant record
#59169cast time: 2 secA variant record
#59199different tooltip textA variant record
#59683cast time: 2 secA variant record
#59863cast time: 3 secA 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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