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Lightning Blast

Spell

Lightning Blast

Nature

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3.2 secMedium Range

Blasts an enemy with lightning for 83 to 89 Nature damage.

Lightning Blast

Tooltip

Blasts an enemy with lightning for 83 to 89 Nature damage.

How it works

Each cast of Lightning Blast costs 90 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 83. It scales with 1 times spell power.

What it does

Lightning Blast is a Nature spell with a 3.2 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 83).

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
Cost90 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time3.2 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 83
Spell power coefficient: 1

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 34 separate Spell records named "Lightning Blast". This page is record #8598. 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
#43996cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#62053effect types: noneA different effect setup
#62054journal encounter: The Assembly of Iron; effect types: noneA different caster
#63491used by: Cast by Lightning Elemental Passive; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#83070effect types: noneA different effect setup
#88332effect types: noneA different effect setup
#88357effect types: noneA different effect setup
#94731used by: Cast by Lightning Blast; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#125076effect types: noneA different effect setup
#126145used by: Cast by Bind Lightning; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#136439effect types: noneA different effect setup
#138014effect 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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