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Wrath of the Lich KingWrath of the Lich King era data from Blizzard's titan client, build 3.80.2.69874Also on WoW Forever · Classic Era · The Burning Crusade · MoP Classic · Retail (Midnight)
Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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Instant castMedium Range

Blasts up to 3 targets for 150 to 250 Nature damage.

Chain Lightning

Tooltip

Blasts up to 3 targets for 150 to 250 Nature damage. Each target after the first takes less damage.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 150. It jumps to up to 3 targets.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 150) jumping to up to 3 targets.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Wrath of the Lich King client, build 3.80.2.69874. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolNature
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Global cooldown1.5 sec
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 150
Chain targets: 3

Raw client values from the Wrath of the Lich King client, build 3.80.2.69874. 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 #21179. 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
#15117cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#15305cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#15659cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#16006cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#16033cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#16921different tooltip textA variant record
#20831cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#22355different tooltip textA variant record
#23106cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#23206cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#24680cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#25021different tooltip textA 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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