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Lightning Bolt

Spell

Lightning Bolt

Nature

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Instant cast6 sec cooldownMedium Range

Shocks an enemy for Nature damage.

Lightning Bolt

Tooltip

Shocks an enemy for Nature damage.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

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

What it does

Lightning Bolt is a Nature spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and a 6 sec cooldown. 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
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown6 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
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.

How to learn

Items that grant this spell

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 200 separate Spell records named "Lightning Bolt". This page is record #59199. 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
#56891effect values: 11.44 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#57780cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 297 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#57781cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 1.55 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#59006cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 9.28 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#59024cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 27.83 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#59081cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 37.11 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#59169cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#59683cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 37.11 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#59863cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 27.83 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#60009cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 6.96 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#60032effect values: 27.83 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#61374cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 470.5 (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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