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Lightning Bolt
Spell nature lightning
  • Lightning Bolt (14 ranks)
  • Shaman ability
  • 30 yd range
  • 6%-10% of base mana
  • gcd cooldown
  • 2.5 sec cast
  • Casts a bolt of lightning at the target for X to Y Nature damage.
Properties
Class Shaman
School Nature
Cooldown GCD
Improvements Ability thunderking balllightning [Call of Thunder], Spell fire lavaspawn [Convection], Spell fire fireball [Concussion], Spell frost manaburn [Elemental Focus], Spell fire volcano [Elemental Fury], Spell nature stormreach [Storm Reach], Elemental Precision, Spell nature wispheal [Elemental Mastery], Spell lightning lightningbolt01 [Lightning Mastery], Spell nature lightningoverload [Lightning Overload], Spell nature mentalquickness [Mental Quickness], Ability shaman stormstrike [Stormstrike], Spell nature tranquility [Tidal Mastery], Spell nature ravenform [Nature's Swiftness], Spell nature natureblessing [Nature's Blessing], Shamanism

[[Category:shaman abilities]][[Category:shaman abilities]]

Shamans know that lightning can strike twice in the same place.Template:TCG quote

Lightning Bolt is a Nature-based direct damage spell. It is the only spammable damage spell for the Shaman and one of the primary damage spells for elemental Shamans.

Table

Level Base mana cost Damage Cast Time
1 3 % 18 1.5 s
2 3 % 19 1.55 s
3 3 % 21 1.61 s
4 3 % 22 1.66 s
5 3 % 22 1.71 s
6 3 % 24 1.76 s
7 3 % 25 1.81 s
8 3 % 26 1.87 s
9 3 % 28 1.92 s

Notes

  • It uses the lightning animation instead of the normal nature animation.
  • When compared to a Mage Spell frost frostbolt02 [Frostbolt], this does slightly less DPS. However, when coupled with Spell lightning lightningbolt01 [Lightning Mastery], Lightning Bolt can do more damage at 2 sec cast. However, Frostbolt may be more effective with it's chill effect on enemies, useful in both PvP and PvE.
  • Has traveling time, so can be combined with Spell Nature ChainLightning [Chain Lightning] or a Shock which are instant for spike damage.
  • Lightning Bolt's spell power coefficient is greater than that of Spell Nature ChainLightning [Chain Lightning]. While its maximum damage is initially less than that of the first strike of Chain Lightning, it draws level at approximately 2071 spell power (less if Lightning Bolt is glyphed). Beyond this amount, therefore, Lightning Bolt causes more damage than Chain Lightning to a single target. However, Chain Lightning's shorter cast time prevents Lightning Bolt from ever achieving higher DPS.

Improvements

  • Spell fire fireball [Concussion] increases its base damage, while Ability Shaman Stormstrike [Stormstrike] increases the damage of the 2 next nature spells after it by 20%.
  • Eye of the Storm reduces pushback suffered from receiving damage while casting by 23, 46 and 70%.
  • Spell shaman elementaloath [Elemental Oath] increases your spell critical strike chance by 5% for 15 seconds after hitting with a spell critical strike.
  • Elemental Precision increases your chance to hit with spells while reducing your spells' threat.
  • Spell nature lightningoverload [Lightning Overload] gives your Lightning Bolt spell chance to cast a second, half damage spell of the same type at no additional mana cost and with no threat of its own.

Tips and tactics

  • This is a good spell to start the fight and pull enemies until level 75 when you can learn Spell Shaman LavaBurst [Lava Burst]. Untalented and used against a foe with no speed boosting abilities at max range, you can cast 3 Lightning Bolts in the span of time it takes for a mob to reach you. You can even cast a shock just as the 3rd Lightning Bolt finishes casting to max out damage against a pulled, incoming mob.
  • It is also more likely to use during combat because of its 2.5 second casting time as opposed to other classes' similar function spells (Spell Shadow ShadowBolt [Shadow Bolt], Spell fire flamebolt [Fireball]), and is fairly mana-efficient.

Past changes

  • In Patch 2.3, cast time reduced to 2.5 (from 3.0 where applicable), mana costs reduced, benefit from spell damage have been modified to maintain the DPS of the the previous, longer casting time.


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