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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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1 secExtended 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, causing Nature damage to each.

How it works

Each cast of Chain Lightning costs 700 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 2313. It scales with 1 times spell power. It jumps to up to 3 targets.

What it does

Chain Lightning is a Nature spell with a 1 sec cast and a range of 50 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 2313) 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
Cost700 Mana
Range50 yards (Extended Range)
Cast time1 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 2313
Spell power coefficient: 1
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 #48140. 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
#41183cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#42441cast time: 3 secA variant record
#42804cast time: 3 secA variant record
#43435cast time: 2 secA variant record
#44318cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#45868used by: Cast by Periodic Random Lightning (20 yd, 1 sec); cast time: instant; effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#46380cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#48699cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#50830cast time: instant; different tooltip textA variant record
#52383cast time: 3 secA variant record
#54334cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#54531cast time: instant; different 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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