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Lightning Bolt

Spell

Lightning Bolt

Nature

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Shaman

Instant castLonger Range

Casts a bolt of lightning at the target for Nature damage.

Lightning Bolt

Tooltip

Casts a bolt of lightning at the target for Nature damage.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2).

What it does

Lightning Bolt is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 45 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage.

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
Range45 yards (Longer Range)
Cast timeInstant
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)

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 200 separate Spell records named "Lightning Bolt". This page is record #37661. 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
#31764cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 2.96 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#34345cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 197 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#35010cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 1196.5 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#36152cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 21.71 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#37273cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 197 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#37664cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 1797 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#38465cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 197 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#39065effect values: 27.29 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#41184cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 21.09 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#42024journal encounter: Shade of Akama; cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 27.72 (this record: 0); different tooltip textA different caster
#43526cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 22.64 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#43903cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 796.5 (this record: 0); 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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