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Lightning Cloud

Spell

Lightning Cloud

Nature

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Instant castMedium Range

Creates a cloud of lightning that lasts 15 sec., blasting all enemies in a selected area for 24.806 Nature damage and inflicting 27.2866 additional damage every 3 sec.

Lightning Cloud

Tooltip

Creates a cloud of lightning that lasts 15 sec., blasting all enemies in a selected area for 24.806 Nature damage and inflicting 27.2866 additional damage every 3 sec.

How it works

Lightning Cloud is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 24.806. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 10 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Persistent Area Aura (effect type 27). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 27.2866 per tick. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 10 yards. It ticks every 3 sec, 5 times over the full 15 sec (136.43 base in total).

What it does

Lightning Cloud is a Nature spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 15 sec. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 24.806) in a 10 yard radius and leaves a persistent area effect on the ground in a 10 yard radius every 3 sec.

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 timeInstant
Duration15 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 24.806
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 10 yards
Effect #2Persistent Area Aura (27)
Aura type id 3
Value: 27.2866
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 10 yards
Period: every 3 sec

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.

Used by

Where is this spell used?

Lightning Cloud appears in: 1 spell that casts it.

Spells that cast it

From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 21 separate Spell records named "Lightning Cloud". This page is record #39580. 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
#8293cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 25.15, 17.57 (this record: 24.81, 27.29); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#19513effect values: 1.4, 1.7 (this record: 24.81, 27.29)Different tuning
#22946cast time: 2.5 sec; effect types: School Damage, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#23105effect values: 2.18, 2.1 (this record: 24.81, 27.29)Different tuning
#24683effect values: 4.66, 9.32 (this record: 24.81, 27.29)Different tuning
#25033difficulty rows: Event; duration: 14 sec; effect values: 22.33, 26.05 (this record: 24.81, 27.29)A per-difficulty version
#26550effect values: 12.58, 12.58 (this record: 24.81, 27.29)Different tuning
#32193effect values: 108, 38 (this record: 24.81, 27.29)Different tuning
#37665effect values: 221.5, 83 (this record: 24.81, 27.29)Different tuning
#40136duration: 6 sec; effect types: Persistent Area AuraA different effect setup
#44417duration: 14 sec; effect values: 14.41, 4.8 (this record: 24.81, 27.29)Different tuning
#54921school: Physical; duration: 1 min; effect types: Apply Aura; 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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