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Lightning Bolt

Spell

Lightning Bolt

Nature

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Instant castLong 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 School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 27.8349.

What it does

Lightning Bolt is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 27.8349).

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 timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 27.8349

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 #60032. 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
#57780cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 297 (this record: 27.83)Different tuning
#57781cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 1.55 (this record: 27.83); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#59006cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 9.28 (this record: 27.83)Different tuning
#59024cast time: 2 secA variant record
#59081cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 37.11 (this record: 27.83)Different tuning
#59169cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Weapon % DamageA different effect setup
#59199effect values: 0 (this record: 27.83); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#59683cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 37.11 (this record: 27.83)Different tuning
#59863cast time: 3 secA variant record
#60009cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 6.96 (this record: 27.83); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#61374cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 470.5 (this record: 27.83)Different tuning
#61893cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 1196.5 (this record: 27.83)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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