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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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2 secMedium Range

Strikes an enemy with a lightning bolt that arcs to another nearby enemy.

Chain Lightning

Tooltip

Strikes an enemy with a lightning bolt that arcs to another nearby enemy. The spell affects targets, causing Nature damage to each.

How it works

Each cast of Chain Lightning costs 150 Mana.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 396.5. It scales with 1 times spell power. It jumps to up to 3 targets.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with a 2 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 396.5) 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
Cost150 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time2 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 396.5
Spell power coefficient: 1
Chain targets: 3

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 #27567. 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
#22355cast time: instant; effect values: 297 (this record: 396.5)Different tuning
#23106no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#23206cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 597 (this record: 396.5)Different tuning
#24680cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 9.32 (this record: 396.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#25021cast time: instant; effect values: 447 (this record: 396.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#28167cast time: instant; effect values: 23.55 (this record: 396.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#28293effect values: 20.94 (this record: 396.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#28900cast time: instant; effect values: 147 (this record: 396.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#31330cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 17.23 (this record: 396.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#31717cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 37.5 (this record: 396.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#32337effect values: 37.21 (this record: 396.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#33643cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 1797 (this record: 396.5); 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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70338, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted1 effect rows in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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