Spell

Zap

Nature

3 secMedium Range

Unleashes an arc of electricity at a player, inflicting 12.5 Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies within 3 yards.

Zap

How it works

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

Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 12.5. It jumps to up to 5 targets.
Effect 2 is Dummy (effect type 3). Its base value is 3.

What it does

Zap is a Nature spell with a 3 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 12.5) jumping to up to 5 targets.

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

School	Nature
Range	30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time	3 sec
Effect #1	School Damage (2) Value: 12.5 Chain targets: 5
Effect #2	Dummy (3) Value: 3

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 30 separate Spell records named "Zap". This page is record #303951. 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
#275489	school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: 5 sec; effect types: Apply Aura	A different effect setup
#275490	school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura	A different effect setup
#288312	cast time: instant; duration: 3 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 165; different tooltip text	A different effect setup
#288313	school: Physical; cast time: instant; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura	A different effect setup
#297543	journal encounter: King Gobbamak; cast time: instant; effect types: Instakill; different tooltip text	A different caster
#297551	school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy	A different effect setup
#299131	school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy	A different effect setup
#300211	cast time: instant; effect types: School Damage	A different effect setup
#300242	used by: Cast by Shock Coil; school: Physical; cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy	A helper record another spell casts
#300642	cast time: instant; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Knock Back, Apply Aura, effect 165; different tooltip text	A different effect setup
#301726	no compared field differs	A duplicate client record
#304064	difficulty rows: Mythic Keystone, Mythic; used by: Cast by Conductive; cast time: instant; effect values: 4.4, 3 (this record: 12.5, 3); different tooltip text	A per-difficulty version

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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