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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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Shaman

2 secLong Range

Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing (116.4% of Spell Power) Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies.

Chain Lightning

Tooltip

Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing (116.4% of Spell Power) Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies.

Consumes Maelstrom Weapon for increased cast speed and damage.]?a187880[

Consumes Maelstrom Weapon for increased cast speed.][]

Generates 2 Maelstrom per target hit.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). It scales with 1.164 times spell power. It jumps to up to 3 targets.
  2. Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 4.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with a 2 sec cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage jumping to up to 3 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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast time2 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Spell power coefficient: 1.164
Chain targets: 3
Effect #2Dummy (3)
Value: 4

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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Chain Lightning appears in: 4 talents.

Talents

  • Chain Lightning for Shaman (Elemental, Enhancement, Restoration)Talent
  • Chain Lightning for Shaman (Elemental, Enhancement, Restoration) (definition #132111)Talent
  • Chain Lightning for Shaman (Elemental, Enhancement, Restoration) (definition #132665)Talent
  • Chain Lightning (a talent definition no current talent tree places)Talent

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Build history

this spell Changelog

Changes between the retail game builds our datamine has recorded, newest first.

  • Effect: Spell power coefficient changed from 0.7302 to 1.164 (patch 12.1.0)

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 179 separate Spell records named "Chain Lightning". This page is record #188443. 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 values: 39.43, 40 (this record: 0, 4); 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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