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Breathes lightning, instantly dealing 9 Nature damage to a single target.
How it works
Each cast of Lightning Breath costs 50 Focus. Casting it triggers a 1.5 sec global cooldown.
- Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 9.
What it does
Lightning Breath is a Nature spell with an instant cast and a range of 20 yards. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 9).
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
| School | Nature |
|---|---|
| Cost | 50 Focus |
| Range | 20 yards (Short Range) |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Global cooldown | 1.5 sec |
| GCD category | Category id 133 |
| Effect #1 | School Damage (2) Value: 9 |
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.
Lightning Breath sounds
The sounds the game plays when Lightning Breath is cast and lands, straight from the client. Press play, or open a kit for every file and the download formats.
LifeDrainLoopSoundKit 3087
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.
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Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 61 separate Spell records named "Lightning Breath". This page is record #24844. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| #15797 | cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 222.19 (this record: 9); different tooltip text | Different tuning |
| #17157 | cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 444.37 (this record: 9); different tooltip text | Different tuning |
| #20535 | cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 444.37 (this record: 9); different tooltip text | Different tuning |
| #20536 | cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 666.56 (this record: 9); different tooltip text | Different tuning |
| #20543 | cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 888.74 (this record: 9); different tooltip text | Different tuning |
| #20627 | cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 666.56 (this record: 9); different tooltip text | Different tuning |
| #20630 | cast time: 2 sec; effect values: 888.74 (this record: 9); different tooltip text | Different tuning |
| #36594 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #38058 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #38109 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #38113 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #38133 | effect types: none | A 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
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