Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt (12 ranks) Shaman ability 30 yd range Up to 300 Mana gcd cooldown 2.5 sec cast Casts a bolt of lightning at the target for X to Y Nature damage.
Properties
Class	Shaman
School	Nature
Cooldown	GCD
Improvements	[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]

[[Category:shaman abilities]][[Category:shaman abilities]]

Shamans know that lightning can strike twice in the same place.Template:TCG quote

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
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.

Improvements

• [Convection] reduces the mana cost of Lightning Bolt.

• [Concussion] increases its base damage, while [Stormstrike] increases the damage of the 2 next nature spells after it by 20%.

• [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%.

• [Elemental Fury] increases your critical strike damage bonus.

• Eye of the Storm reduces pushback suffered from receiving damage while casting by 23, 46 and 70%.

• [Elemental Reach] increase your Lightning Bolt range.

• [Call of Thunder], [Thundering Strikes] and [Tidal Mastery] each increases your base spell critical strike chance, while [Elemental Mastery] gives you a 20% increased critical strike chance and 20% lower mana cost for 30 seconds.

• [Elemental Oath] increases your spell critical strike chance by 5% for 15 seconds after hitting with a spell critical strike.

• [Mental Quickness] increases your spell power by an amount based on your attack power.

• Elemental Precision increases your chance to hit with spells while reducing your spells' threat.

• [Lightning Mastery], [Maelstrom Weapon] and [Nature's Swiftness] each reduces its cast time.

• [Lightning Overload] gives your Lightning Bolt spell chance to cast a second, half damage spell of the same type at no additional mana cost and with no threat of its own.

•  [Glyph of Lightning Bolt] reduces its cost of by 10%.

Tips and tactics

• This is a good spell to start the fight and pull enemies. 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 3rd Lightning Bolt finishes casting to max out damage against a pulled, incoming mob.
• 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.