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Lightning Bolt

Spell

Lightning Bolt

Nature

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2.5 secMedium Range

Casts a bolt of lightning at the target for 10.7057 Nature damage.

Lightning Bolt

Tooltip

Casts a bolt of lightning at the target for 10.7057 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 10.7057.

What it does

Lightning Bolt is a Nature spell with a 2.5 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 10.7057).

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 time2.5 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 10.7057

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 #71934. 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
#64098used by: Cast by Lightning Pillar; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#64696journal encounter: Razorscale; cast time: 5 sec; effect values: 197 (this record: 10.71); different tooltip textA different caster
#65987cast time: instant; effect values: 21.41 (this record: 10.71); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#68670cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 297 (this record: 10.71); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#69567cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 297 (this record: 10.71); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#69626subtext: Rank 1; cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#69630subtext: Rank 1; cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different rank or variant
#69970cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 25.69 (this record: 10.71); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#73212cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 341 (this record: 10.71); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#73254cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 9.62 (this record: 10.71); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#79085cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 297 (this record: 10.71); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#79087cast time: 4 sec; effect values: 396.5 (this record: 10.71); 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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