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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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Instant cast6 sec cooldownMedium 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, inflicting greater Nature damage to each successive target.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 37.1131. It scales with 1 times spell power. It jumps to up to 3 targets.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and a 6 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 37.1131) 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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown6 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 37.1131
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 #59844. 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
#59082effect values: 49.48 (this record: 37.11)Different tuning
#59220cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 447 (this record: 37.11); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#59223cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 896.5 (this record: 37.11); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#59273cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 30.93 (this record: 37.11); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#59517cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 147 (this record: 37.11); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#59716cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 95 (this record: 37.11); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#61528cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 0.96 (this record: 37.11)Different tuning
#61879journal encounter: The Assembly of Iron; cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 21.41 (this record: 37.11); different tooltip textA different caster
#62131journal encounter: Thorim; cast time: 0.5 sec; effect values: 52.34 (this record: 37.11); different tooltip textA different caster
#63479cast time: 5 sec; effect values: 28.55 (this record: 37.11); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#64213cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 23.79 (this record: 37.11); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#64215cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 38.06 (this record: 37.11); 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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