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Arcing Current

Spell

Arcing Current

Nature

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2 secLonger Range

Strikes an enemy with electricity that arcs to another nearby enemy.

Arcing Current

Tooltip

Strikes an enemy with electricity that arcs to another nearby enemy. The spell affects targets, inflicting Nature damage to each.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Weapon % Damage (effect type 31). Its base value is 125. It jumps to up to 3 targets.

What it does

Arcing Current is a Nature spell with a 2 sec cast and a range of 45 yards. When cast it deals a percentage of weapon damage (base value 125) jumping to up to 3 targets.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the current retail game build. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolNature
Range45 yards (Longer Range)
Cast time2 sec
Effect #1Weapon % Damage (31)
Value: 125
Chain targets: 3

Raw client values from the current retail game build. 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 11 separate Spell records named "Arcing Current". This page is record #448249. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#295825journal encounter: Orgozoa; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA different caster
#298413school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#298421school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#303440used by: Cast by Arcing Current; cast time: instant; effect values: 100 (this record: 125); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#303441cast time: instant; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#305048journal encounter: Orgozoa; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#305857school: Physical; cast time: 4 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#307167school: Physical; cast time: 4 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#307224school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#456027duration: 8 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; 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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