Lightning Bolt

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Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt 2.5 sec cast 30 yd range Up to 300 Mana Casts a bolt of lightning at the target for X to Y Nature damage.
Usable by
Class	Shaman
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Nature
Cooldown	GCD
Talents
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
Other information
Ranks	12

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.

Contents 1 Rank table 2 Notes 3 Talent improvement 4 Tips and tactics 5 Past changes

Rank table

Rank	Level	Mana Cost	Damage	Cost	Cast Time
1	1	15	13-15	Free	1.5 sec
2	8	25	26-30	1	2 sec
3	14	40	45-53	9	2.5 sec
4	20	70	83-95	22	2.5 sec
5	26	95	125-143	36	2.5 sec
6	32	125	172-194	72	2.5 sec
7	38	150	227-255	99	2.5 sec
8	44	175	282-316	1 62	2.5 sec
9	50	210	347-389	2 16	2.5 sec
10	56	240	419-467	2 70	2.5 sec
11	62	275	495-565	3 42	2.5 sec
12	67	300	563-643	5 76	2.5 sec

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.

• Concussion and Nature's Blessing talents would increase Lightning Bolt damage

• Stormstrike would increases damage of your 2 next nature spells by 20%.

• Call of Thunder and Tidal Mastery talents increases your crit chance

• Storm Reach increase your Lightning Bolt range.

• Elemental Focus talent would give you the Clearcasting state after landing a critical strike with a Fire, Frost, or Nature damage spell, that reduces the mana cost of your next 2 damage spells by 40%.

• Lightning Overload gives your Lightning Bolt spell chance to cast a second, half damage spell of the same type, at no additional mana cost.

• Elemental Fury increases your critical strike damage bonus.

• Elemental Precision and Nature's Guidance talents increases your chance to hit with spells.

• Elemental Mastery - this spell gives your next Fire, Frost, or Nature damage spell a 100% critical strike chance.

• Lightning Mastery and Nature's Swiftness would reduce your cast time.

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.

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