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Lightning Bolt

Spell

Lightning Bolt

Nature

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1.5 secLong Range

Blasts an enemy with lightning, inflicting Nature damage.

Lightning Bolt

Tooltip

Blasts an enemy with lightning, inflicting Nature damage.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 4.9239.

What it does

Lightning Bolt is a Nature spell with a 1.5 sec cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 4.9239).

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 time1.5 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 4.9239

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 #88080. 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
#71934cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 10.71 (this record: 4.92); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#73212cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 341 (this record: 4.92)Different tuning
#73254effect values: 9.62 (this record: 4.92)Different tuning
#79085cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 297 (this record: 4.92)Different tuning
#79087cast time: 4 sec; effect values: 396.5 (this record: 4.92)Different tuning
#79884cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 297 (this record: 4.92)Different tuning
#83068cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 13.21 (this record: 4.92); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#86331difficulty rows: Mythic Keystone; cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 14.34 (this record: 4.92); different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#87727cast time: 2.2 sec; effect values: 108 (this record: 4.92); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#88032cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 15.76 (this record: 4.92)Different tuning
#89105effect values: 14.77 (this record: 4.92)Different tuning
#96891cast time: instant; effect values: 0 (this record: 4.92); 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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