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Lightning Bolt

Spell

Lightning Bolt

Nature

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2 secLong Range

Blasts an enemy with lightning, inflicting Nature damage.

Lightning Bolt

Tooltip

Blasts an enemy with lightning, inflicting Nature damage.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is Weapon % Damage (effect type 31). Its base value is 400.

What it does

Lightning Bolt is a Nature spell with a 2 sec cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals a percentage of weapon damage (base value 400).

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
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1Weapon % Damage (31)
Value: 400

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 #59169. 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
#56891cast time: instant; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#57780cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#57781cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#59006effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#59024effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#59081effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#59199cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#59683effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#59863cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#60009cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#60032cast time: instant; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup
#61374cast time: 1 sec; effect types: School DamageA different effect setup

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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