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Lightning Strike

Spell

Lightning Strike

Nature

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Instant cast1.5 sec cooldownTower 100

Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemies, dealing 638 to 862 Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies.

Lightning Strike

Tooltip

Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemies, dealing 638 to 862 Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Each jump increases the damage.

How it works

It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 638. Its area radius is 5 yards.

What it does

Lightning Strike is a Nature spell with an instant cast, a range of 100 yards and a 1.5 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 638) in a 5 yard radius.

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
Range100 yards (Tower 100)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown1.5 sec
Global cooldownNone
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 638
Radius: 5 yards

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 128 separate Spell records named "Lightning Strike". This page is record #68445. 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
#52944cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Knock Back; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#53062school: Physical; effect types: effect 77A different effect setup
#76101used by: Cast by Lightning Cloud; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#85725duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#85726used by: Cast by Lightning StrikeA helper record another spell casts
#88214difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#88230effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#88238difficulty rows: Heroic, 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); used by: Cast by Lightning Strike; effect types: effect 77A per-difficulty version
#89087used by: Cast by Hurricane; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#91326used by: Cast by Lightning Strike; effect types: effect 77A helper record another spell casts
#91327effect types: effect 140A different effect setup
#93247duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA 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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