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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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2.5 secTower 100

Inflicts 567.881 Nature damage, chaining to nearby enemies.

Chain Lightning

Tooltip

Inflicts 567.881 Nature damage, chaining to nearby enemies.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 567.881. It jumps to up to 10 targets.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with a 2.5 sec cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 567.881) jumping to up to 10 targets.

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 (Tower 100)
Cast time2.5 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 567.881
Chain targets: 10

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 #144584. 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 values: 14.79 (this record: 567.88); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#83300cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#83455cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 5.85 (this record: 567.88); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#84829cast time: instant; effect values: 61 (this record: 567.88); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#85715cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 297 (this record: 567.88); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#87622difficulty rows: Mythic Keystone; journal encounter: Asaad, Caliph of Zephyrs; effect types: School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#94396cast time: 4 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#97496effect values: 22.64 (this record: 567.88); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#99373used by: Cast by Thrall's Air Aura; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA helper record another spell casts
#103637cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Instakill; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#103638cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#104130effect values: 45.28 (this record: 567.88); different tooltip textDifferent tuning

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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