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Chained Bolt

Spell

Chained Bolt

Nature

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1.8 secMedium Range

Strikes an enemy with a lightning bolt that arcs to another nearby enemy.

Chained Bolt

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

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 175.409. It scales with 1 times spell power. It jumps to up to 3 targets.

What it does

Chained Bolt is a Nature spell with a 1.8 sec cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 175.409) jumping to up to 3 targets.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolNature
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast time1.8 sec
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 175.409
Spell power coefficient: 1
Chain targets: 3

Raw client values from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Sounds

Chained Bolt sounds

The sounds the game plays when Chained Bolt 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 3 separate Spell records named "Chained Bolt". This page is record #14200. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#6254effect values: 30 (this record: 175.41); different tooltip textDifferent tuning
#15549effect values: 263.11 (this record: 175.41)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 1.60.1.70532, 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

Comments

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