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| Lightning Bolt
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| Usable by
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| Class
| Shaman
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| Properties
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| Type
| Offensive
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| School
| Nature
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| Cooldown
| GCD
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| Talents
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Improvement talents
| Call of Thunder, Convection, Concussion, Elemental Focus, Elemental Fury, Storm Reach, Elemental Precision, Elemental Mastery, Lightning Mastery, Lightning Overload, Mental Quickness, Stormstrike, Tidal Mastery, Nature's Guidance, Nature's Swiftness, Nature's Blessing
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| Other information
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| Ranks
| 12
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- Shamans know that lightning can strike twice in the same place.TCGHoA 113
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.
Rank table
| Rank | Level | Mana Cost | Damage | Cost | Cast Time |
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| 1 | 1 | 15 | 13-15 | Free | 1.5 sec |
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| 2 | 8 | 25 | 26-30 | 1 | 2 sec |
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| 3 | 14 | 40 | 45-53 | 9 | 2.5 sec |
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| 4 | 20 | 70 | 83-95 | 22 | 2.5 sec |
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| 5 | 26 | 95 | 125-143 | 36 | 2.5 sec |
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| 6 | 32 | 125 | 172-194 | 72 | 2.5 sec |
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| 7 | 38 | 150 | 227-255 | 99 | 2.5 sec |
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| 8 | 44 | 175 | 282-316 | 1 62 | 2.5 sec |
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| 9 | 50 | 210 | 347-389 | 2 16 | 2.5 sec |
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| 10 | 56 | 240 | 419-467 | 2 70 | 2.5 sec |
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| 11 | 62 | 275 | 495-565 | 3 42 | 2.5 sec |
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| 12 | 67 | 300 | 563-643 | 5 76 | 2.5 sec |
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Notes
- It uses the lightning animation instead of the normal nature animation.
- When compared to a Mage Frostbolt, this does slightly less DPS. However, when coupled with 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.
Talent improvement
- Convection talent would reduce mana cost of Lightning Bolt.
- Stormstrike would increases damage of your 2 next nature spells by 20%.
- Lightning Overload gives your Lightning Bolt spell chance to cast a second, half damage spell of the same type, at no additional mana cost.
Tips and tactics
- This is a good spell to start the fight and pull enemies.
- 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 (Shadowbolt, 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.