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Lightning Bolt

Spell

Lightning Bolt

Nature

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1 secExtended Range

Blasts an enemy with lightning, inflicting Nature damage.

Lightning Bolt

Tooltip

Blasts an enemy with lightning, inflicting Nature damage.

How it works

Each cast of Lightning Bolt costs 90 Mana.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 27.7203. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Lightning Bolt is a Nature spell with a 1 sec cast and a range of 50 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 27.7203).

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
Cost90 Mana
Range50 yards (Extended Range)
Cast time1 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 27.7203
Spell power coefficient: 1

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 boss encounter.

Boss encounters

  • Shade of Akama in Black Temple
    Journal section: Stage One: Unleash the Shade > Ashtongue Elementalist
    Encounter creatures: Shade of AkamaRaid 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 200 separate Spell records named "Lightning Bolt". This page is record #42024. 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
#36152cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 21.71 (this record: 27.72)Different tuning
#37273cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 197 (this record: 27.72)Different tuning
#37661subtext: Rank 1; cast time: instant; effect values: 0 (this record: 27.72); different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#37664cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 1797 (this record: 27.72)Different tuning
#38465cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 197 (this record: 27.72)Different tuning
#39065cast time: instant; effect values: 27.29 (this record: 27.72)Different tuning
#41184cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 21.09 (this record: 27.72)Different tuning
#43526cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 22.64 (this record: 27.72)Different tuning
#43903cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 796.5 (this record: 27.72)Different tuning
#45075cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 1196.5 (this record: 27.72)Different tuning
#48698cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 22.06 (this record: 27.72)Different tuning
#48895cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 6.36 (this record: 27.72)Different 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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