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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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5 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, inflicting greater Nature damage to each successive target.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 45.2019. It scales with 1 times spell power. It jumps to up to 5 targets.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with a 5 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 45.2019) 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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 45.2019
Spell power coefficient: 1
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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Chain Lightning appears in: 1 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

  • Razorscale in Ulduar
    Journal section: Stage One: Winged Terror > Dark Rune Watcher
    Encounter creatures: RazorscaleRaid boss ability

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 179 separate Spell records named "Chain Lightning". This page is record #64759. 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
#59844cast time: instant; effect values: 37.11 (this record: 45.2)Different tuning
#61528cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 0.96 (this record: 45.2)Different tuning
#61879journal encounter: The Assembly of Iron; cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 21.41 (this record: 45.2); different tooltip textA different caster
#62131journal encounter: Thorim; cast time: 0.5 sec; effect values: 52.34 (this record: 45.2); different tooltip textA different caster
#63479effect values: 28.55 (this record: 45.2); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#64213cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 23.79 (this record: 45.2); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#64215cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 38.06 (this record: 45.2); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#64390cast time: 0.5 sec; effect values: 23.79 (this record: 45.2); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#64758cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 26.17 (this record: 45.2)Different tuning
#67529cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 30.93 (this record: 45.2)Different tuning
#68440cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#68441cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; 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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