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Lightning Strike

Spell

Lightning Strike

Nature

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Instant castLong Range

Call down a lightning strike, dealing Nature damage to all enemies at the target location.

Lightning Strike

Tooltip

Call down a lightning strike, dealing Nature damage to all enemies at the target location.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its area radius is 6 yards.

What it does

Lightning Strike is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage in a 6 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
Range40 yards (Long Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Radius: 6 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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 128 separate Spell records named "Lightning Strike". This page is record #193883. 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
#192138journal encounter: Warlord Parjesh; cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 8.66 (this record: 0); different tooltip textA different caster
#192271cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 600 (this record: 0); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#192274effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#192794journal encounter: Wrath of Azshara; effect types: School Damage, School Damage, Dummy; different tooltip textA different caster
#192987school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#192988used by: Cast by Lightning Strike; school: Physical; effect types: Trigger MissileA helper record another spell casts
#192998used by: Cast by Lightning Strike; effect types: School Damage, Trigger SpellA helper record another spell casts
#193820used by: Cast by Lightning Strike; school: Physical; duration: 6 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#193821school: Physical; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#194010effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#196114school: Physical; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#197494used by: Cast by Lightning Strike; effect types: effect 77A helper record another spell casts

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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