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The Burning CrusadeThe Burning Crusade 2.5.6 · Outland, the Dark Portal and Shattrath · client build 2.5.6.70006Also on WoW Forever · Classic Era · Wrath of the Lich King · MoP Classic · Retail (Midnight)
Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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1.5 secMedium Range

Strikes an enemy with a lightning bolt that arcs to another nearby enemy.

Chain Lightning

Tooltip

Strikes an enemy with a lightning bolt that arcs to another nearby enemy. The spell affects targets, inflicting greater Nature damage to each successive target.

How it works

Each cast of Chain Lightning costs 150 Mana.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 875. It scales with 1 times spell power. It jumps to up to 10 targets.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with a 1.5 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 875) jumping to up to 10 targets.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Burning Crusade client, build 2.5.6.70006. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolNature
Cost150 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 875
Spell power coefficient: 1
Chain targets: 10

Raw client values from the Burning Crusade client, build 2.5.6.70006. 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 179 separate Spell records named "Chain Lightning". This page is record #24680. 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
#20831cast time: 3 secA variant record
#21179cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#22355cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#23106cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#23206cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#25021cast time: instantA variant record
#27567cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#28167cast time: instantA variant record
#28293cast time: 1 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#28900cast time: instantA variant record
#31330cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#31717cast time: 3 secA variant record

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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