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Ball Lightning

Spell

Ball Lightning

Nature

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

The caster spews out several bolts of lightning at nearby targets.

Ball Lightning

Tooltip

The caster spews out several bolts of lightning at nearby targets. Players of the impact suffer Nature damage.
Each bolt will bounce two additional times.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 300. Its area radius is 5 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64). It triggers Hatch Eggs.

What it does

Ball Lightning is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 300) in a 5 yard radius. It also casts Hatch Eggs.

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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 300
Radius: 5 yards
Effect #2Trigger Spell (64)
Trigger spell: Hatch Eggs

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 82 separate Spell records named "Ball Lightning". This page is record #161585. 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
#136539used by: Cast by Ball Lightning; school: Physical; effect types: Dummy, DummyA helper record another spell casts
#136544school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#136548cast time: 1 sec; effect types: Jump; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#136620difficulty rows: 25 Player, 10 Player (Heroic), 25 Player (Heroic); used by: Cast by Ball Lightning; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#139261school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#161582school: Physical; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#161583used by: Cast by Ball Lightning; effect types: School Damage, Dummy, Trigger SpellA helper record another spell casts
#161584no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#161587school: Physical; cast time: 1 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 77; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#180664duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#180674duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#183473duration: 10 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; 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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