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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

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 500 Mana. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 3700. It scales with 1 times spell power. 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 3700) 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
Cost500 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 3700
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 #48699. 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 secA variant record
#42441cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#42804cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#43435cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#44318no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#45868used by: Cast by Periodic Random Lightning (20 yd, 1 sec); effect types: Dummy; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#46380no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#48140cast time: 1 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#50830no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#52383cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#54334cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#54531no compared field differsA duplicate client 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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