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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 cast6 sec cooldownMedium 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

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 5550. 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, a range of 30 yards and a 6 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 5550) 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
Cooldown6 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 5550
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 #59844. 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
#59082no compared field differsA duplicate client record
#59220cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#59223cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#59273cast time: 1 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#59517cast time: 1.5 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#59716cast time: 3 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#61528cast time: 1.5 secA variant record
#61879journal encounter: The Assembly of Iron; cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA different caster
#62131journal encounter: Thorim; cast time: 0.5 sec; different tooltip textA different caster
#63479cast time: 2 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#64213cast time: 1 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#64215cast time: 1 sec; 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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