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Lightning Storm

Spell

Lightning Storm

Nature

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Instant castVision Range (AOI)

Creates a violent storm that shocks the ground around the caster, inflicting 31 Nature damage to players within the impact location and knocking them away.

Lightning Storm

Tooltip

Creates a violent storm that shocks the ground around the caster, inflicting 31 Nature damage to players within the impact location and knocking them away.

How it works

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 31. Its area radius is 2 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is effect type 144, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 30. Its area radius is 2 yards.

What it does

Lightning Storm is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 100 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 31) in a 2 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
Range100 yards (Vision Range (AOI))
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 31
Radius: 2 yards
Effect #2Effect 144
Value: 30
Misc value: 100
Radius: 2 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 Storm 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 84 separate Spell records named "Lightning Storm". This page is record #404710. 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
#377762effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#382173effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#382174school: Frost; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#392486cast time: 1.5 sec; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#392488effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#392572duration: 1 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#396986effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#404707duration: 168 hr; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#404708effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#404709effect types: Trigger MissileA different effect setup
#404712effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#404715duration: 4 sec; effect types: Apply AuraA 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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