Chain Lightning

Chain Lightning
Chain Lightning 30 yd  range 1% of base mana 2 sec cast Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing x Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Affects 3 total targets. Enhanced Chain Lightning (Level 92+) When your Chain Lightning or Lava Beam strikes 3 or more targets, the your next Earthquake is instant and its damage is increased by 300%.
Usable by
Class	Shaman
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Nature
Casting time	2 sec cast
Cooldown	(GCD 1.5 sec)
Level required	28
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• Chain Lightning
• 30 yd  range
• 1% of base mana
• 2 sec cast
• Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing x Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Affects 3 total targets.
  
  Enhanced Chain Lightning (Level 92+)
  When your Chain Lightning or Lava Beam strikes 3 or more targets, the your next Earthquake is instant and its damage is increased by 300%.

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The air crackled with electricity as the bolt leapt from body to body, leaving the scent of charred flesh in its wake. - TCG

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Chain Lightning is a core shaman ability learned at level 28. It deals direct damage to up to three targets.

Modified by

• Glyph of Chain Lightning

Talents

• Ancestral Swiftness
• Conductivity

Elemental abilities

• Elemental Reach
• Shamanism (ability)
• Fulmination
• Mastery: Molten Earth
• Spiritwalker's Grace
• Ascendance

Enhancement abilities

• Stormstrike
• Maelstrom Weapon
• Mastery: Enhanced Elements

Restoration abilities

• Spiritwalker's Grace

Notes

• All three hits are calculated individually. As such, it is possible (and fairly common) that only one or two hits critically hit.

• Chain Lightning has a fairly high chance of triggering [Elemental Focus] (elemental spec) due to hitting multiple targets.

• Be careful when using this spell if more mobs are nearby that aren't meant to be aggroed. While Chain Lightning may be more tempting to use for its lower cast time and higher damage output, it can easily cause adds.

Patch changes

• Patch 6.2.3 (17-Oct-2015): Damage has been increased by 4%.
  
• Patch 6.1.0 (24-Feb-2015): Enhanced Chain Lightning now makes Earthquake instant cast, and increases the damage done by the next Earthquake by 300% when Chain Lightning or Lava Beam strikes 3 or more targets (instead of increasing Earthquake damage by 60% for each target struck).
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (14-October-2014): Chain Lightning’s damage has been increased by 50%.
  
• Patch 5.2.0 (5-Mar-2013): Chain Lightning will now deal the same damage to subsequent targets as it does to the first.
  
• Patch 2.3.0 (13-Nov-2007): Cast time was reduced to 2.0 (from 2.5), mana costs reduced, benefit from spell damage reduced appropriately.
  
• Patch 1.6.0 (12-Jul-2005): Chain spells cast on PvP targets by an unflagged Shaman will now properly bounce to other PvP targets.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• WoWDB