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Lightning Bolt

Spell

Lightning Bolt

Nature

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2 sec3 sec cooldownLong Range

Blasts an enemy with lightning, inflicting 20 Nature damage.

Lightning Bolt

Tooltip

Blasts an enemy with lightning, inflicting 20 Nature damage.

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 20.

What it does

Lightning Bolt is a Nature spell with a 2 sec cast, a range of 40 yards and a 3 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 20).

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 time2 sec
Cooldown3 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 20

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 #53044. 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
#48698effect values: 22.06 (this record: 20); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#48895effect values: 6.36 (this record: 20); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#49418cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 297 (this record: 20); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#49454effect values: 1196.5 (this record: 20); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#51587effect values: 27.22 (this record: 20); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#51618cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 27.22 (this record: 20); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#53314effect values: 13.74 (this record: 20); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#54843cast time: instant; effect values: 0 (this record: 20); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#55044cast time: instant; effect values: 0 (this record: 20); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#56326effect values: 396.5 (this record: 20); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#56891cast time: instant; effect values: 11.44 (this record: 20); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#57780cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 297 (this record: 20); 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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