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Lightning Cloud

Spell

Lightning Cloud

Nature

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2.5 secMedium Range

Creates a cloud of lightning that lasts 9 sec., blasting all enemies in a selected area for Nature damage and inflicting additional damage every 3 sec.

Lightning Cloud

Tooltip

Creates a cloud of lightning that lasts 9 sec., blasting all enemies in a selected area for Nature damage and inflicting additional damage every 3 sec.

How it works

Each cast of Lightning Cloud costs 100 Mana.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 180. Its area radius is 10 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Persistent Area Aura (effect type 27). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 200 per tick. Its area radius is 10 yards. It ticks every 3 sec, 3 times over the full 9 sec (600 base in total).

What it does

Lightning Cloud is a Nature spell with a 2.5 sec cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 9 sec. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 180) in a 10 yard radius and leaves a persistent area effect on the ground in a 10 yard radius every 3 sec.

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
Cost100 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time2.5 sec
Duration9 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 180
Radius: 10 yards
Effect #2Persistent Area Aura (27)
Aura type id 3
Value: 200
Radius: 10 yards
Period: every 3 sec

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 21 separate Spell records named "Lightning Cloud". This page is record #22946. 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
#6535cast time: 3 sec; duration: 15 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#8293duration: 15 secA variant record
#19513cast time: instant; duration: 15 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#23105cast time: instant; duration: 15 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#24683cast time: instant; duration: 15 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#25033cast time: instant; duration: 14 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#26550cast time: instant; duration: 15 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#32193cast time: instant; duration: 15 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#37665cast time: instant; duration: 15 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#39580used by: Cast by Storm Blink; cast time: instant; duration: 15 sec; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#40136cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Persistent Area AuraA different effect setup
#44417cast time: instant; duration: 14 sec; different tooltip textA 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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