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Lightning Cloud

Spell

Lightning Cloud

Nature

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2.5 secMedium Range

Creates a cloud of lightning that lasts 15 sec., blasting all enemies in a selected area for Nature damage and inflicting additional damage every 5 sec.

Lightning Cloud

Tooltip

Creates a cloud of lightning that lasts 15 sec., blasting all enemies in a selected area for Nature damage and inflicting additional damage every 5 sec.

How it works

Each cast of Lightning Cloud costs 100 Mana.

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 25.1483. 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 17.5738 per tick. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 10 yards. It ticks every 5 sec, 3 times over the full 15 sec (52.72 base in total).

What it does

Lightning Cloud is a Nature spell with a 2.5 sec cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 15 sec. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 25.1483) in a 10 yard radius and leaves a persistent area effect on the ground in a 10 yard radius every 5 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
Cost100 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time2.5 sec
Duration15 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 25.1483
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 10 yards
Effect #2Persistent Area Aura (27)
Aura type id 3
Value: 17.5738
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 10 yards
Period: every 5 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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 21 separate Spell records named "Lightning Cloud". This page is record #8293. 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
#6535cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Weapon % Damage, Persistent Area Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#19513cast time: instant; effect values: 1.4, 1.7 (this record: 25.15, 17.57); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#22946effect types: School Damage, Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#23105cast time: instant; effect values: 2.18, 2.1 (this record: 25.15, 17.57); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#24683cast time: instant; effect values: 4.66, 9.32 (this record: 25.15, 17.57); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#25033difficulty rows: Event; cast time: instant; duration: 14 sec; effect values: 22.33, 26.05 (this record: 25.15, 17.57); different tooltip textA per-difficulty version
#26550cast time: instant; effect values: 12.58, 12.58 (this record: 25.15, 17.57); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#32193cast time: instant; effect values: 108, 38 (this record: 25.15, 17.57); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#37665cast time: instant; effect values: 221.5, 83 (this record: 25.15, 17.57); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#39580used by: Cast by Storm Blink; cast time: instant; effect values: 24.81, 27.29 (this record: 25.15, 17.57); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#40136cast time: instant; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Persistent Area AuraA different effect setup
#44417cast time: instant; duration: 14 sec; effect values: 14.41, 4.8 (this record: 25.15, 17.57); 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.

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 sighted2 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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