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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)
Forked Lightning

Spell

Forked Lightning

Nature

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Instant castMedium Range

Inflicts 1157 to 1343 Nature damage to enemies in a cone in front of the caster.

Forked Lightning

Tooltip

Inflicts 1157 to 1343 Nature damage to enemies in a cone in front of the caster.

How it works

Each cast of Forked Lightning costs 150 Mana.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 1157. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 100 yards.

What it does

Forked Lightning is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 1157) in a 100 yard radius.

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 timeInstant
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 1157
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 100 yards

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 28 separate Spell records named "Forked Lightning". This page is record #24682. 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
#8435cast time: 2 secA variant record
#12549cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#20299cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#22945cast time: 1.5 secA variant record
#25034cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#38145cast time: 2 sec; effect types: Dummy, School Damage; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#40088cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#46150cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#53167effect types: noneA different effect setup
#59152effect types: noneA different effect setup
#63541effect types: noneA different effect setup
#73546effect types: noneA 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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