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Lightning Rod

Spell

Lightning Rod

Nature

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Instant castEight yards

Sky-Singer Strag charges her spear with lightning inflicting 1.36027 Nature damage every 2 sec.

Lightning Rod

Tooltip

Sky-Singer Strag charges her spear with lightning inflicting 1.36027 Nature damage every 2 sec. for 8 sec.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 1.3603. Its area radius is 4 yards.

What it does

Lightning Rod is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 8 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 1.3603) in a 4 yard radius.

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
Range8 yards (Eight yards)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 1.3603
Radius: 4 yards

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 Rod 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 56 separate Spell records named "Lightning Rod". This page is record #156507. 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
#109180school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#116569school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#123489used by: Cast by Invoke Lightning; cast time: 2 sec; effect types: effect 140A helper record another spell casts
#156498used by: Cast by Ping Spear Stalker; school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA helper record another spell casts
#156501school: Physical; cast time: 0.6 sec; duration: 15 sec; effect types: SummonA different effect setup
#156505school: Physical; cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 15 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#156509school: Physical; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#156733school: Physical; effect types: JumpA different effect setup
#168391school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#168466school: Physical; duration: 1 min; effect types: SummonA different effect setup
#197209school: Physical; duration: 8 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#197568effect values: 1 (this record: 1.36); 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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