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Lightning Strike

Spell

Lightning Strike

Nature

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Instant castSelf Only

Chance to strike your melee target with lightning for 250 Nature damage.

Lightning Strike

Tooltip

Chance to strike your melee target with lightning for 250 Nature damage.

How it works

Its aura procs every time its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 42. It triggers Lightning Strike.

What it does

Lightning Strike is a Nature spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster) and an effect that lasts until cancelled. When cast it applies an aura. It also casts Lightning Strike (record #23687).

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
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
DurationInfinite
Proc chanceAlways
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 42
Trigger spell: Lightning Strike

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.

How to learn

Items that grant this spell

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 128 separate Spell records named "Lightning Strike". This page is record #23686. 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
#16614used by: Cast by Add Lightning Dam - Weap 03; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#23687used by: Cast by Lightning Strike; duration: none; effect types: School Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#27983effect types: noneA different effect setup
#37841effect types: noneA different effect setup
#52944effect types: noneA different effect setup
#53062effect types: noneA different effect setup
#68445effect types: noneA different effect setup
#76101used by: Cast by Lightning Cloud; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#85725effect types: noneA different effect setup
#85726used by: Cast by Lightning Strike; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#88214effect types: noneA different effect setup
#88230effect 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

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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