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Lightning Breath

Spell

Lightning Breath

Physical

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1 sec8 sec cooldownSelf Only

Channels a stream of lightning breath, causing Nature damage.

Lightning Breath

Tooltip

Channels a stream of lightning breath, causing Nature damage.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 23. It ticks every 1 sec, 3 times over the full 3 sec. It triggers Lightning Breath.

What it does

Lightning Breath is a spell with a 1 sec cast, no range (it targets the caster), an 8 sec cooldown and effects that last 3 sec. When cast it applies an aura every 1 sec. It also casts Lightning Breath (record #283631).

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

SchoolPhysical
RangeSelf Only
Cast time1 sec
Cooldown8 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration3 sec
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 23
Period: every 1 sec
Trigger spell: Lightning Breath

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 #283625. 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
#212086used by: Cast by Lightning Breath; school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#213477school: Nature; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: effect 61, Apply Aura, effect 165A different effect setup
#224554school: Nature; cast time: 1.5 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#283631used by: Cast by Lightning Breath; school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: School Damage, School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#289043school: Nature; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#290770school: Nature; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#303339school: Nature; cast time: 4 sec; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Dummy, School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#303391school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#309662used by: Cast by Lightning Breath; cast time: instant; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#309664school: Nature; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 6 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#311836school: Nature; cast time: 2 sec; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#317598school: Nature; cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup

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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