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Ball Lightning

Spell

Ball Lightning

Nature

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Instant cast1 sec cooldownSuper Long

Unleashes a ball of lightning, inflicting 32 Nature damage to all enemies within 4 yards of the impact.

Ball Lightning

Tooltip

Unleashes a ball of lightning, inflicting 32 Nature damage to all enemies within 4 yards of the impact.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 32. Its area radius is 4 yards.

What it does

Ball Lightning is a Nature spell with an instant cast, a range of 150 yards and a 1 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 32) in a 4 yard radius.

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
Range150 yards (Super Long)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown1 sec
Global cooldown1 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 32
Radius: 4 yards

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 #268755. 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
#220122used by: Cast by Ball Lightning; school: Physical; duration: 8 sec; effect types: SummonA helper record another spell casts
#220127cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#264568school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#265887school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#269817school: Physical; cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#269822duration: 5 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#269823duration: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#278014used by: Cast by Power Overload; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#288057cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#288059used by: Cast by Ball Lightning; school: Physical; duration: 15 sec; effect types: SummonA helper record another spell casts
#288119duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#288133duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, 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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