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Lightning Bolt
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Name: | Lightning Bolt |
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School: | Evocation (Electricity) |
Spell Level: | Art 3 , Sor/Wiz 3 , Storm 3 , Wild 3 |
Components: | Verbal![]() ![]() ![]() |
SLA: | Air Savant Tier 5 (Sor), Arcanotechnician Core 4 (Art); Air Domain Level 9 (Clr, DA); |
Spell Point Cost: | 12 |
Metamagic: | Embolden, Empower, Eschew, Heighten, Intensify, Maximize, Quicken |
Target: | Foe, Breakable, Directional |
Range: | Double |
Duration: | Instantaneous |
Saving Throw: | Reflex save takes half damage (2 saves if it forks) |
Spell Resistance: | No |
Cooldown: | 4 seconds (Art), 3 seconds (Wiz), 2 seconds (Sor) |
Description
You release a powerful bolt of electrical energy that deals 1d6+3 points of electricity damage per caster level (Maximum damage 10d6+30.) to each target in its path. A successful Reflex save reduces the damage by half. For each enemy this spell strikes it has a 50% chance to fork, replicating the spell's effect on that target. This can happen once or twice. This spell is a bolt and has double range.
Notes
- In DDO, it is quite difficult to hit more than one target at a time with a lightning bolt, which makes other 3rd level spells much better choices for area damage. The best way to hit multiple targets in a line is to target the creature farthest away, or even aim without targeting using the mouse.
- On the other hand the 50% chance to fork and cause double damage can make Lightning Bolt a potentially very high single-target damage spell for a 3rd level spell. If a maximized and empowered Lightning Bolt forks and the enemy fails his saving throw, it is not uncommon for specialized casters to destroy most enemies (including named monsters) of equal level with a single cast.
- The potential for very high damage makes enemy casters with Lightning Bolt very dangerous, and often warrant the use of an Resist Energy or Protection from Energy spell, or consider those enemies as primary targets to avoid sudden death of party members.
- This spell receives +10 maximum caster level from the Master of Air epic feat.
Scrolls[edit]
- Corual Laoli <Arcane Scroll Vendor - Level 3> found in Object Desire in House Phiarlan
- ML: 3, CL: 5, UMD: 28, Base value: 37pp
Platinum Piece 5gp
Gold Piece
- ML: 3, CL: 5, UMD: 28, Base value: 37pp
- Joanna Thurman <Arcane Scroll Vendor - Level 3> found in The Portable Hole in Teleport
- ML: 3, CL: 5, UMD: 28, Base value: 37pp
Platinum Piece 5gp
Gold Piece
- ML: 3, CL: 5, UMD: 28, Base value: 37pp
Wands[edit]
- Mona Harper <Guild Wand Vendor> found in Locksmith Square in House Kundarak
- ML: 5, CL: 5, UMD: 28, Base value: 1,125pp
Platinum Piece — Bound to Account
Bound to Account: This item is Bound to Account
- ML: 5, CL: 5, UMD: 28, Base value: 1,125pp
- Olvod Alorum <Wand Vendor> found in The Marketplace Bazaar in The Marketplace
- ML: 5, CL: 5, UMD: 28, Base value: 1,125pp
Platinum Piece
- ML: 5, CL: 5, UMD: 28, Base value: 1,125pp
- Guilliam Feathercrest <Wand Vendor> found in House of Wizardry in House Jorasco
- ML: 6, CL: 6, UMD: 30, Base value: 1,575pp
Platinum Piece
- ML: 6, CL: 6, UMD: 30, Base value: 1,575pp
- Panlamin Felwrought <Wand Vendor> found in Object Desire in House Phiarlan
- ML: 6, CL: 6, UMD: 30, Base value: 1,575pp
Platinum Piece
- ML: 6, CL: 6, UMD: 30, Base value: 1,575pp
- Mona Harper <Guild Wand Vendor> found in Locksmith Square in House Kundarak
- ML: 8, CL: 8, UMD: 34, Base value: 2,700pp
Platinum Piece — Bound to Account
Bound to Account: This item is Bound to Account
- ML: 8, CL: 8, UMD: 34, Base value: 2,700pp
- Offensive spells
- Offensive SLAs
- Evocation spells
- Electricity spells
- Spells
- Artificer spells/Level 3
- Sorcerer / Wizard spells/Level 3
- Stormsinger spells/Level 3
- Wild Mage spells/Level 3
- Spells with a Verbal component
- Spells with a Somatic component
- Spells with a Material component
- Artificer SLAs
- Cleric SLAs
- Sorcerer SLAs
- Spells with Embolden
- Spells with Empower
- Spells with Eschew
- Spells with Heighten
- Spells with Intensify
- Spells with Maximize
- Spells with Quicken
- Spells with no SR
- SLAs with no SR