Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt 30 yd  range 1.75% of base mana 2.5 sec cast Fires a bolt of lightning at the target, dealing x Nature damage.
Usable by
Class	Shaman
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Nature
Casting time	2.5 sec cast
Cooldown	(GCD 1.5 sec)
Level required	1
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• Lightning Bolt
• 30 yd  range
• 1.75% of base mana
• 2.5 sec cast
• Fires a bolt of lightning at the target, dealing x Nature damage.

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Shamans know that lightning can strike twice in the same place. - TCG

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Lightning Bolt is a core shaman ability learned at level one. It is a Nature-based direct damage spell.

Modified by

• Glyph of Eternal Earth

Talents

• Ancestral Swiftness
• Conductivity

Elemental abilities

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

Enhancement abilities

• Stormstrike
• Maelstrom Weapon
• Mastery: Enhanced Elements

Restoration abilities

• Telluric Currents
• Spiritwalker's Grace

Notes

• It uses the lightning animation instead of the normal nature animation.
• Has traveling time, so can be combined with [Chain Lightning] or a Shock which are instant for spike damage.

Tips

• This is a good spell to start fights at lower levels. 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 third Lightning Bolt finishes casting to max out damage against a pulled, incoming mob.
• It is also more likely to be used during combat because of its 2.5 second casting time as opposed to other classes' similar function spells and is fairly mana-efficient.

Patch changes

• Patch 6.2.3 (17-Oct-2015): Damage has been increased by 4%.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (14-October-2014): Lightning Bolt can no longer be cast while moving by default. Effects like Spiritwalker’s Grace can still make the spell able to the cast while moving.
  
• Patch 5.3.0 (21-May-2013): Lightning Bolt can now be cast while moving.
  
• Patch 4.3.0 (29-Nov-2011): Lightning Bolt has a new spell effect.
  
• Patch 2.3.0 (13-Nov-2007): 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.
  
• Patch 1.11.0 (20-Jun-2006): Mana cost reduced approximately 17%.
  

External links

• Wowhead
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• WoWDB