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Lightning Strike

Spell

Lightning Strike

Nature

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Instant castLonger Range

Calls down a Lightning Strike on your current target, dealing Nature damage divided between all non-crowd controlled targets.

Lightning Strike

Tooltip

Calls down a Lightning Strike on your current target, dealing Nature damage divided between all non-crowd controlled targets.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its area radius is 10 yards.

What it does

Lightning Strike is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 45 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage in a 10 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
Range45 yards (Longer Range)
Cast timeInstant
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Radius: 10 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 Strike 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 128 separate Spell records named "Lightning Strike". This page is record #138146. 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
#137462duration: until cancelled; effect types: Area Aura (Party); different tooltip textA different effect setup
#137516school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#137561school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#137569used by: Cast by Lightning Strike; school: Physical; duration: 30 sec; effect types: Dummy, Create Area Effect; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#137588school: Physical; cast time: 3 sec; effect types: Trigger Missile; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#137597different tooltip textA variant record
#137647effect values: 109.03 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#137740school: Physical; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#138012duration: 10 sec; effect types: Summon; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#138720used by: Cast by Lightning Chase; effect values: 27.26 (this record: 0); different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#138826cast time: 2.5 sec; duration: 4 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#139130school: Physical; effect types: DummyA 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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