Chain Lightning

Chain Lightning
Chain Lightning Row 1 shaman talent 40 yd range 1% of base mana 2 sec cast Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing (63.5% of Spell power) Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Affects 3 total targets. If Chain Lightning hits more than 1 target, each target hit by your Chain Lightning increases the damage of your next Crash Lightning by 20% Each target hit by Chain Lightning reduces the cooldown of Crash Lightning by 1.0 sec Generates 4 Maelstrom per target hit.
Properties
Class	Shaman
School	Nature
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Improvements	[Call of Thunder], [Crashing Storms], [Flash of Lightning], [Thorim's Invocation], [Unrelenting Calamity]

Chain Lightning is a shaman class talent that deals direct damage to up to 3 targets. It is automatically learned for Elemental and Enhancement shamans.

Notes and trivia

• All three hits are calculated individually. As such, it is possible (and fairly common) that only one or two hits critically hit.
• Unlike [Lightning Bolt], which has a travel time, Chain Lightning instantly hits all targets.
• The spell first appeared in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos as one of the hero spells of orcish Far Seers.
• Chain Lightning is one of Thrall's basic abilities in Heroes of the Storm.

Patch changes

• Patch 10.0.7 (2023-03-21): Damage increased by 35%.
  
• Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24): Damage increased by 10%.
  
• Hotfix (2022-11-07): Damage increased by 20% (Restoration only).
  
• Hotfix (2022-11-01): damage increased by 10%.
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 1 class talent (was a level 24 ability). Enhancement effects are now baseline. Elemental Rank 2 removed.
  
• Patch 9.0.5 (2021-03-09): Damage increased by 35%.
  
• Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Rank 2 added for Enhancement: Each target hit by Chain Lightning reduces the cooldown of [Crash Lightning] by 1 second.
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13):
  • Available to all Shaman at level 24 (was 28 for Elemental and Restoration only). Elemental and enhancement shaman have received additional unique effects.
  • Rank 2 added for Elemental at level 42: Chain Lightning jumps to 2 additional targets.
  • Enhancement: Chain Lightning has an additional effect – If Chain Lightning hits more than 1 target, each target hit by your Chain Lightning increases the damage of your next [Crash Lightning] by 20%.
    
• Hotfix (2017-09-08): Restoration and Elemental Shaman's Chain Lightning spells should now use a consistent casting animation.
  
• Hotfix (2016-09-23):
  • Chain Lightning Maelstrom generation increased to 6.
  • Chain Lightning (Elemental) damage increased by 23%.
  • Chain Lightning (Restoration) damage increased by 23%.
    
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): No longer available to Enhancement. Damage increased by 106% for Elemental and 185% for Restoration.
  
• Patch 6.2.3 (2015-11-17): Damage has been increased by 4%.
  
• Hotfix (2014-12-08): Damage has increased by 10%.
  
• Hotfix (2014-11-25): Damage has been increased by 20%.
  
• Patch 6.0.3 (2014-10-28): Now costs 50% less mana.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Damage has been increased by 50%. No longer has a cooldown.
  
• Hotfix (2013-09-17): Glyph of Chain Lightning should now be properly reducing the damage of Chain Lightning.
  
• Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Will now deal the same damage to subsequent targets as it does to the first.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now learned at level 28 (was 32).
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Cooldown reduced to 3 seconds, down from 6.
  
• Patch 2.3.0 (2007-11-13): Cast time was reduced to 2.0 (from 2.5), mana costs reduced, benefit from spell damage reduced appropriately.
  
• Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-19): No longer chains onto nearby targets that are stealthed or invisible to the caster.
  
• Patch 1.6.0 (2005-07-12): Chain spells cast on PvP targets by an unflagged Shaman will now properly bounce to other PvP targets.
  
• Patch 0.9 (2004-08-17): Cast time slightly reduced, damage increased, now deals less damage to each target after the first.
  
• Patch 0.7 (2004-06-15): Moved to level 32.
  

See also

• Chain Lightning, TCG card

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB