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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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3 sec3 sec cooldownTower 100

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

Chain Lightning

Tooltip

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

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 37.5. It jumps to up to 5 targets.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with a 3 sec cast, a range of 100 yards and a 3 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 37.5) jumping to up to 5 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 time3 sec
Cooldown3 sec
Global cooldownNone
GCD categoryCategory id 1152
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 37.5
Chain targets: 5

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 #31717. 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
#24680cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 9.32 (this record: 37.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#25021cast time: instant; effect values: 447 (this record: 37.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#27567cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 396.5 (this record: 37.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#28167cast time: instant; effect values: 23.55 (this record: 37.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#28293cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 20.94 (this record: 37.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#28900cast time: instant; effect values: 147 (this record: 37.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#31330effect values: 17.23 (this record: 37.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#32337cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 37.21 (this record: 37.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#33643effect values: 1797 (this record: 37.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#37448school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: effect 77A different effect setup
#39066cast time: instant; effect values: 31.01 (this record: 37.5); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#39945journal encounter: Shade of Akama; effect values: 1797 (this record: 37.5); different tooltip textA different caster

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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