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Ball Lightning

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Ball Lightning

Nature

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Instant castAnywhere - Unlimited

The Colossal Stormfiend emits orbs of lightning, inflicting 31 Nature damage to players caught in their path and stunning them for 0.5 sec.

Ball Lightning

Tooltip

The Colossal Stormfiend emits orbs of lightning, inflicting 31 Nature damage to players caught in their path and stunning them for 0.5 sec.

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 31.
  2. Effect 2 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 12. Its base value is 1. It applies the stunned mechanic.

What it does

Ball Lightning is a Nature spell with an instant cast, an unlimited range and effects that last 0.5 sec. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 31) and applies an aura with the stunned mechanic.

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
Range50000 yards (Anywhere - Unlimited)
Cast timeInstant
Duration0.5 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 31
Effect #2Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 12
Value: 1
Mechanic: Stunned

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 #385073. 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
#378407school: Physical; cast time: 6 sec; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 137A different effect setup
#378414duration: none; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#378429used by: Cast by Ball Lightning; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#378451cast time: 4 sec; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#384566cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#385068journal encounter: Raszageth the Storm-Eater; cast time: 3 sec; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different caster
#385069school: Nature, Shadow; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#385072used by: Cast by Ball Lightning; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#388382cast time: 1 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#393571cast time: 2 sec; duration: 2 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#393572used by: Cast by Ball Lightning; school: Physical; duration: none; effect types: Dummy, effect 140A helper record another spell casts
#393574school: Nature, Shadow; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Create Area EffectA 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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