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Lightning Strike

Spell

Lightning Strike

Nature

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3 secLong Range

Calls down a bolt of lightning, inflicting Nature damage and knocking back all nearby enemies.

Lightning Strike

Tooltip

Calls down a bolt of lightning, inflicting Nature damage and knocking back all nearby enemies.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

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

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 135.5. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 5 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Knock Back (effect type 98). Its base value is 100. Its area radius is 5 yards.

What it does

Lightning Strike is a Nature spell with a 3 sec cast and a range of 40 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 135.5) in a 5 yard radius and has a Knock Back effect in a 5 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 time3 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 135.5
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 5 yards
Effect #2Knock Back (98)
Value: 100
Misc value: 90
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.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 128 separate Spell records named "Lightning Strike". This page is record #52944. 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
#23686cast time: instant; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#23687used by: Cast by Lightning Strike; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#27983cast time: instant; duration: 1 sec; effect types: School Damage, Apply AuraA different effect setup
#37841effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#53062school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: effect 77A different effect setup
#68445cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#76101used by: Cast by Lightning Cloud; cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#85725cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply AuraA different effect setup
#85726used by: Cast by Lightning Strike; cast time: instant; effect types: School DamageA helper record another spell casts
#88214cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#88230cast time: instant; effect types: DummyA different effect setup
#88238used by: Cast by Lightning Strike; cast time: instant; 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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