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Crackling Lightning

Spell

Crackling Lightning

Nature

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Instant castTower 100

Calls down a bolt of lightning at a target's location, inflicting 45 Nature damage to all players of the impact point.

Crackling Lightning

Tooltip

Calls down a bolt of lightning at a target's location, inflicting 45 Nature damage to all players of the impact point. After is cast, is cast at the same location.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 45. It applies the infected mechanic. Its area radius is 6 yards.

What it does

Crackling Lightning is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 45) with the infected mechanic in a 6 yard radius. The client files the whole spell under the infected mechanic.

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 timeInstant
MechanicInfected
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 45
Mechanic: Infected
Radius: 6 yards

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?

Crackling Lightning appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

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

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 8 separate Spell records named "Crackling Lightning". This page is record #284117. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#144633effect values: 16 (this record: 45); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#144634effect types: effect 77A different effect setup
#144635cast time: 3 sec; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#191213cast time: 4 sec; effect values: 1500 (this record: 45); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#284106journal encounter: Stormwall Blockade; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#284112school: Physical; effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#288205school: Physical; duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA 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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