Casters : The Lightning Capacitor - Page 5

Cryic · 05/24/07, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by Jehryn

How much +dmg would the trinket represent with an elemental Shaman with 40% Crit? (raid buffed with raid with moonkin i have 43.4% crit)

My best guess form my numbers:

Each crit is worth rougly 266 damage. If your crit rate is 40%, then add 106 to each spell. That number will be much smaller depending upon the number of wasted procs which goes way the hell up for grinding or killing trash where the mobs are more likely to be dead before the proc lands. But the number will be slightly higher on just bosses. The 266 number is from a night of working on High King Maulgar, Gruul and Mag from above.

Jeru · 06/16/07, 9:54 AM

Quick question, I didn't really find the answer anywhere:

Does the lightning bolt use your base +hit from gear, or does it ignore hit chance vs. bosses? I haven't had the chance to use it on bosses yet, just got it yesterday.

Tyrian · 06/16/07, 12:11 PM

Ive been using my Capactior a bit lately (im full arcane spec) and I generally notice it accounts for ~3-5% of my total damage in raid fights. For a quick example, on Lurker I did close to 500k (long kill!) and the lightning capacitor had done ~20k of that.

Last_Human · 06/16/07, 9:49 PM

Originally Posted by Cryic

FWIW: The Lightning Capacitor has been changed where it now takes into account some amount of +spell damage, or the tool tip is wrong. I had a proc for 823 damage when farming solo. The top end should have been 806.

If you're deep fire spec it's probably just 'playing with fire', although unfortunately I don't have one myself to verify.

Jeru · 06/18/07, 4:45 AM

I tried this baby on gruul today and it did about 6% of my total damage, 21k. It seems as if the crits are influenced by spell power (arcane talent that increases crit damage bonus by 50%) I didn't notice excessive resists, so my guess is it uses your base +hit.

Vhad · 06/18/07, 9:25 AM

It does indeed get benefit from percentage talents such as arcane instability, playing with fire, molten fury and arcane power.

Kegsta · 07/01/07, 1:55 AM

I just got this trinket this week.

A friend of mine tells me it can proc Lightning Overload. I'm a bit sceptical about this, he claims when it procs it, it will proc a max rank Lightning bolt, not another 700 damage one. can anyone confirm/disprove this?

hacp · 07/01/07, 2:36 AM

Originally Posted by Kegsta

I just got this trinket this week.

A friend of mine tells me it can proc Lightning Overload. I'm a bit sceptical about this, he claims when it procs it, it will proc a max rank Lightning bolt, not another 700 damage one. can anyone confirm/disprove this?

Your friend either lied to you, or was misinformed by a unreliable source.

• Embar · 07/01/07, 3:20 AM

If your friend saw a LO proc after the mini LC bolt, it was probably triggered by the same bolt that triggered LC, and not by the mini bolt.

Guljit · 07/01/07, 4:00 PM

For other elemental shaman out there, it seems that in the last patch they have allowed FT crits from your weapon to now proc the LC. Also, if you run OOM, you can use rank 1 LB to keep procing the LC for a little bit of DPS.

Tyrian · 07/02/07, 2:19 PM

What is the range on the lightning bolt proc?

Can you aoe something, say 50 yards from a boss and still have the lightning bolts reach the boss? (Our Morogrim strat is aoe all out of water-tomb range)

Sarutobi · 07/02/07, 2:26 PM

According to the data on wowhead (took awhile to find the right lightning spell) it has a range of 45 yards.

http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=37661

Although, if you look a bit lower under 'Range' it says "45 yards (Longer)". Not quite sure how that should be interpreted.

Teenee · 07/03/07, 6:29 AM

Originally Posted by Tyrian

What is the range on the lightning bolt proc?

Can you aoe something, say 50 yards from a boss and still have the lightning bolts reach the boss? (Our Morogrim strat is aoe all out of water-tomb range)

The bolt will go to the target that caused the crit, not your current target. Range is therefore largely irrelevant, as long as the range is as large as your longest range crit-enabled spell. So the scenario you describe will not happen.

subscience · 07/03/07, 3:11 PM

I've always noticed that the LC proc seems to fire at a random target. When I Elemental Mastery a Chain Lightning (causing 3 guaranteed criticals), the target of the LC proc seems to simply be random. I've had it hit my current target, the 2nd jump, and the 3rd jump.

My only gripe with this is that the bolt fired from the LC shares the name Lightning Bolt with the Shaman spell and it's a pain in the ass to analyze by parsing combat logs.

Torrential · 07/03/07, 3:59 PM

Rather dissapointing that the LC proc goes to the target that caused the crit. So if say, in Arena you EM+CL the Capacitor bolt would jump to some target that was not your focus fire target? Sadface indeed.