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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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2 sec6 sec cooldownMedium Range

Strikes an enemy with a lightning bolt that arcs to additional nearby enemies and applies the Electrified effect to them.

Chain Lightning

Tooltip

Strikes an enemy with a lightning bolt that arcs to additional nearby enemies and applies the Electrified effect to them.

How it works

It does not trigger the global cooldown, so it can be used between other casts.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 16.3561. It scales with 1 times spell power. It jumps to up to 3 targets.
  2. Effect 2 is Trigger Spell (effect type 64). It jumps to up to 3 targets. It triggers Electrified.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with a 2 sec cast, a range of 30 yards and a 6 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 16.3561) jumping to up to 3 targets. It also casts Electrified.

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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time2 sec
Cooldown6 sec
Global cooldownNone
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 16.3561
Spell power coefficient: 1
Chain targets: 3
Effect #2Trigger Spell (64)
Chain targets: 3
Trigger spell: Electrified

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 179 separate Spell records named "Chain Lightning". This page is record #137884. 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
#83282cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#83300cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#83455cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#84829cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#85715cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#87622difficulty rows: Mythic Keystone; journal encounter: Asaad, Caliph of Zephyrs; cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#94396cast time: 4 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#97496cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#99373used by: Cast by Thrall's Air Aura; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#103637effect types: Instakill; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#103638cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#104130cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; 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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