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Lightning Bolt

Spell

Lightning Bolt

Nature

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3 secTower 80

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. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 297. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Lightning Bolt is a Nature spell with a 3 sec cast and a range of 80 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 297).

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
Range80 yards (Tower 80)
Cast time3 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 297
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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 200 separate Spell records named "Lightning Bolt". This page is record #49418. 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
#43526cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 22.64 (this record: 297)Different tuning
#43903cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 796.5 (this record: 297)Different tuning
#45075cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 1196.5 (this record: 297)Different tuning
#48698cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 22.06 (this record: 297)Different tuning
#48895cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 6.36 (this record: 297)Different tuning
#49454cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 1196.5 (this record: 297)Different tuning
#51587cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 27.22 (this record: 297)Different tuning
#51618cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 27.22 (this record: 297)Different tuning
#53044cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 20 (this record: 297); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#53314cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 13.74 (this record: 297)Different tuning
#54843cast time: instant; effect values: 0 (this record: 297); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#55044cast time: instant; effect values: 0 (this record: 297); 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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