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Ball Lightning

Spell

Ball Lightning

Physical

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1 sec15 sec cooldownSelf Only

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

Spells that share its cooldown category wait 10 sec after it is cast. It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

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

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 23. It ticks every 1 sec, 3 times over the full 3 sec. It triggers spell id 161586.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 77, which the datamine does not name.

What it does

Ball Lightning is a spell with a 1 sec cast, no range (it targets the caster), a 15 sec cooldown and effects that last 3 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec.

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

SchoolPhysical
RangeSelf Only
Cast time1 sec
Cooldown15 sec
Category cooldown10 sec
Global cooldownNone
Duration3 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 23
Period: every 1 sec
Trigger spell id 161586
Effect #2Effect 77

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 #161587. 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; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, DummyA helper record another spell casts
#136544cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#136548school: Nature; duration: none; 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; school: Nature; cast time: instant; effect types: Apply Aura, School Damage; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#139261cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#161582cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#161583used by: Cast by Ball Lightning; school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Dummy, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#161584school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#161585school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, Trigger Spell; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#180664school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#180674school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#183473school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: 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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