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Chain Lightning

Spell

Chain Lightning

Nature

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3 sec6 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

Each cast of Chain Lightning costs 150 Mana. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 584.697. 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 3 sec cast, a range of 30 yards and a 6 sec cooldown. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 584.697) jumping to up to 3 targets.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70338. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolNature
Cost150 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time3 sec
Cooldown6 sec
Global cooldown1.5 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 584.697
Spell power coefficient: 1
Chain targets: 3

Raw client values from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70338. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Sounds

Chain Lightning sounds

The sounds the game plays when Chain Lightning is cast and lands, straight from the client. Press play, or open a kit for every file and the download formats.

LifeDrainLoopSoundKit 3087

  1. Lifedrainloop4.9s · ID 569031 · spells
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

Joined in the WoW Forever beta client: spell visual, then visual kit, then SoundKit, then the sound file. Browse every game sound in the sound archive.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 179 separate Spell records named "Chain Lightning". This page is record #12058. 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
#15117different tooltip textA variant record
#15305effect values: 1754.09 (this record: 584.7)Different tuning
#15659effect values: 877.05 (this record: 584.7); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#16006effect values: 1169.39 (this record: 584.7); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#16033effect values: 2923.49 (this record: 584.7)Different tuning
#16921cast time: instant; effect values: 125 (this record: 584.7); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#20831effect values: 818.58 (this record: 584.7)Different tuning
#21179cast time: instant; effect values: 200 (this record: 584.7); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#22355cast time: instant; effect values: 1169.39 (this record: 584.7); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#23106cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 1169.39 (this record: 584.7); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#23206effect values: 1169.39 (this record: 584.7); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#24680cast time: 1.5 sec; effect values: 1000 (this record: 584.7)Different tuning

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.

WoW Forever

WoW Forever: what our data shows

Sighted in the WoW Forever beta clientBuild 1.60.1.70338, read from the beta game data we hold
Also in the Classic Era clientYes - this spell is in the Classic Era client's data too
Effect rows sighted1 effect rows in the beta client's data

A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4

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