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Lightning Blast

Spell

Lightning Blast

Nature

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Instant castLong Range

Summons a blast of lightning and charges the ground, dealing significant Nature damage to all creatures in the area over 10 seconds.

Lightning Blast

Tooltip

Summons a blast of lightning and charges the ground, dealing significant Nature damage to all creatures in the area over 10 seconds.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Trigger Missile (effect type 32). Its area radius is 5 yards. It triggers Lightning Blast.

What it does

Lightning Blast is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it launches a missile in a 5 yard radius. It also casts Lightning Blast (record #197806).

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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1Trigger Missile (32)
Radius: 5 yards
Trigger spell: Lightning Blast

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 34 separate Spell records named "Lightning Blast". This page is record #197813. 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
#138374cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#145002cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#191726cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#191733effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#195108cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#196516cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#197806used by: Cast by Lightning Blast; effect types: effect 165A helper record another spell casts
#198014school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#198015school: Physical; different tooltip textA variant record
#198016used by: Cast by Lightning Blast; school: Physical; duration: 20 sec; effect types: Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#210711cast time: 4 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#212026cast time: 4 sec; effect types: School Damage; 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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