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Lightning Bolt

Spell

Lightning Bolt

Nature

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Shaman

Instant castLonger Range

Casts a bolt of lightning at the target for 985 to 1266 Nature damage per Electrical Charge accumulated.

Lightning Bolt

Tooltip

Casts a bolt of lightning at the target for 985 to 1266 Nature damage per Electrical Charge accumulated.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 985.

What it does

Lightning Bolt is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 45 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 985).

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
Range45 yards (Longer Range)
Cast timeInstant
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 985

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 #96891. 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
#71934cast time: 2.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#73212cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#73254cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#79085cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#79087cast time: 4 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#79884cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#83068difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#86331difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#87727cast time: 2.2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#88032difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 2.5 sec; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#88080difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#89105difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player; cast time: 1.5 sec; 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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