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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. The lightning arcs to up to 3 nearby targets.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is Weapon % Damage (effect type 31). Its base value is 150. It jumps to up to 3 targets.

What it does

Lightning Breath is a Nature spell with a 2 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals a percentage of weapon damage (base value 150) jumping to up to 3 targets.

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 #1Weapon % Damage (31)
Value: 150
Chain targets: 3

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 #289043. 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; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#213477duration: 5 sec; effect types: effect 61, Apply Aura, effect 165A different effect setup
#224554cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#283625school: Physical; cast time: 1 sec; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#283631used by: Cast by Lightning Breath; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage, School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#290770cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 200 (this record: 150); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#303339cast time: 4 sec; duration: 12 sec; effect types: Dummy, School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#303391cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#309662used by: Cast by Lightning Breath; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect values: 100 (this record: 150); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#309664cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#311836effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#317598cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 200 (this record: 150); 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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