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Lightning Cloud

Spell

Lightning Cloud

Nature

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Instant castMedium Range

Creates a cloud of lightning that lasts 15 sec., blasting all enemies in a selected area for 500 Nature damage and inflicting 1000 additional damage every 5 sec.

Lightning Cloud

Tooltip

Creates a cloud of lightning that lasts 15 sec., blasting all enemies in a selected area for 500 Nature damage and inflicting 1000 additional damage every 5 sec.

How it works

Each cast of Lightning Cloud costs 60 Mana. Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

Lightning Cloud is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2). Its base value is 500. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 10 yards.
  2. Effect 2 is Persistent Area Aura (effect type 27). It applies aura type 3. Its base value is 1000 per tick. It scales with 1 times spell power. Its area radius is 10 yards. It ticks every 5 sec, 3 times over the full 15 sec (3000 base in total).

What it does

Lightning Cloud is a Nature spell with an instant cast, a range of 30 yards and effects that last 15 sec. When cast it deals Nature damage (base value 500) in a 10 yard radius and leaves a persistent area effect on the ground in a 10 yard radius every 5 sec.

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
Cost60 Mana
Range30 yards (Medium Range)
Cast timeInstant
Duration15 sec
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1School Damage (2)
Value: 500
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 10 yards
Effect #2Persistent Area Aura (27)
Aura type id 3
Value: 1000
Spell power coefficient: 1
Radius: 10 yards
Period: every 5 sec

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

Lightning Cloud sounds

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

Call Lightning ImpactSoundKit 30

  1. Calllightning3.0s · ID 568555 · spells
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

Call Lightning PrecastSoundKit 31

  1. Precastnaturemagicmedium4.9s · ID 568649 · spells
    MP3iPhoneDiscordOriginal

SPELL_Lightning_CastSoundKit 35

  1. Lightningshieldimpact3.2s · ID 569084 · 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 21 separate Spell records named "Lightning Cloud". This page is record #24683. 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
#6535cast time: 3 sec; effect types: School Damage, Create Area EffectA different effect setup
#8293cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 30, 45 (this record: 500, 1000)Different tuning
#19513effect values: 30, 45 (this record: 500, 1000)Different tuning
#22946cast time: 2.5 sec; effect values: 30, 45 (this record: 500, 1000)Different tuning
#23105effect values: 30, 45 (this record: 500, 1000)Different tuning
#25033effect values: 750, 750 (this record: 500, 1000)Different tuning
#26550effect values: 750, 750 (this record: 500, 1000)Different tuning
#32193effect types: noneA different effect setup
#37665effect types: noneA different effect setup
#39580used by: Cast by Storm Blink; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#40136effect types: noneA different effect setup
#44417effect 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 sighted2 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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