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PhysicalTooltip
Toss an enchanted spear at a target location, dealing 4 Physical damage. Lightning then strikes the spear dealing 25 Nature damage to enemies in the blast.
What it does
Lightning Rod is a Physical spell with a 1 sec cast, a range of 35 yards and an 11 sec cooldown. When cast it launches a missile and deals Physical damage (base value 4) in a 5 yard radius. It also casts Lightning Rod (record #386178).
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 facts
SchoolPhysical
Cast time1 sec
Cooldown11 sec
EffectsTrigger Missile, School Damage
RangeHunter Range
Spell ID386179Datamined from the current retail game build. Numbers that scale with level or stats are shown at their base value.
Spell Details
| School | Physical |
|---|---|
| Range | 35 yards (Hunter Range) |
| Cast time | 1 sec |
| Cooldown | 11 sec |
| Category cooldown | 3 sec |
| Global cooldown | 1.5 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Effect #1 | Trigger Missile (32) Trigger spell: Lightning Rod |
| Effect #2 | School Damage (2) Value: 4 Radius: 5 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.
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 56 separate Spell records named "Lightning Rod". This page is record #386179. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #372839 | different tooltip text | A variant record |
| #374873 | school: Nature; cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Instakill; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #374875 | used by: Cast by Lightning Rod; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Summon | A helper record another spell casts |
| #385313 | school: Nature; cast time: 2 sec; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #385314 | school: Nature; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #385316 | used by: Cast by Lightning Rod; school: Nature; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip text | A helper record another spell casts |
| #386178 | used by: Cast by Lightning Rod; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Summon | A helper record another spell casts |
| #386180 | school: Nature; cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Instakill; different tooltip text | A different effect setup |
| #396282 | used by: Cast by Thunderstruck; school: Nature; cast time: instant; effect types: Trigger Missile | A helper record another spell casts |
| #396284 | used by: Cast by Lightning Rod; school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: 10 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip text | A helper record another spell casts |
| #396289 | used by: Cast by Thunderstruck; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy | A helper record another spell casts |
| #396290 | school: Nature; cast time: instant; duration: 10 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura | A 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.