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Lightning Breath

Spell

Lightning Breath

Nature

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2 secMedium Range

Breathes lightning at an enemy, inflicting Nature damage.

Lightning Breath

Tooltip

Breathes lightning at an enemy, inflicting Nature damage.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 597. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Lightning Breath is a Nature spell with a 2 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 597).

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 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 597
Spell power coefficient: 1

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 61 separate Spell records named "Lightning Breath". This page is record #20536. 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
#15797effect types: School Damage, Trigger SpellA different effect setup
#17157effect values: 396.5 (this record: 597)Different tuning
#20535effect values: 396.5 (this record: 597)Different tuning
#20543effect values: 796.5 (this record: 597)Different tuning
#20627no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#20630effect values: 796.5 (this record: 597)Different tuning
#36594cast time: 3 sec; effect values: 297 (this record: 597); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#38058no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#38109effect values: 796.5 (this record: 597)Different tuning
#38113cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 746.5 (this record: 597)Different tuning
#38133cast time: 1 sec; effect values: 1441.5 (this record: 597)Different tuning
#38193cast time: instant; effect values: 7.5 (this record: 597)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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70532, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted1 effect rows in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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