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Lightning Bolt

Spell

Lightning Bolt

Nature

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Blasts an enemy with lightning, inflicting 8 Nature damage.

Lightning Bolt

Tooltip

Blasts an enemy with lightning, inflicting 8 Nature damage.

Victims are afflicted with a stack of Capacitance.

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 8. It scales with 1 times spell power. It triggers Capacitance.

What it does

Lightning Bolt is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 8). It also casts Capacitance.

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 (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 8
Spell power coefficient: 1
Trigger spell: Capacitance

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?

Lightning Bolt 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 200 separate Spell records named "Lightning Bolt". This page is record #307307. 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
#73212cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 341 (this record: 8); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#73254cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 9.62 (this record: 8); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#79085cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 297 (this record: 8); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#79087cast time: 4 sec; effect values: 396.5 (this record: 8); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#79884cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 297 (this record: 8); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#83068cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 13.21 (this record: 8); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#86331difficulty rows: Mythic Keystone; cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 14.34 (this record: 8); different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#87727cast time: 2.2 sec; effect values: 108 (this record: 8); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#88032cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 15.76 (this record: 8); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#88080cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 4.92 (this record: 8); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#89105cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 14.77 (this record: 8); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#96891effect values: 0 (this record: 8); 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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