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Lightning Bolt

Spell

Lightning Bolt

Nature

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Shaman

Instant castMedium Range

Casts a bolt of lightning at the target for 14.5 Nature damage.

Lightning Bolt

Tooltip

Casts a bolt of lightning at the target for 14.5 Nature damage.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 14.5. It scales with 0.2855 times spell power.

What it does

Lightning Bolt is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 30 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 14.5).

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 timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 14.5
Spell power coefficient: 0.2855

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.

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Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 200 separate Spell records named "Lightning Bolt". This page is record #408440. 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
#73212effect types: noneA different effect setup
#73254effect types: noneA different effect setup
#79085effect types: noneA different effect setup
#79087effect types: noneA different effect setup
#79884effect types: noneA different effect setup
#83068effect types: noneA different effect setup
#86331effect types: noneA different effect setup
#87727effect types: noneA different effect setup
#88032effect types: noneA different effect setup
#88080effect types: noneA different effect setup
#89105effect types: noneA different effect setup
#96891effect types: noneA different effect setup

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
Level data sightedBase level 8 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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