Chain LightningLevel 6 Evocation Spell 10~80 Damage
Strike an enemy with lightning. Three more bolts will leap from the target, electrifying as many as three other enemies within 18m. On Save: Targets still take half damage.
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LightningChain Lightning is a Spell in Baldur's Gate 3. Chain Lightning is a Lvl 6 Spell from the Evocation school. Spells can be used for dealing damage to Enemies, inflict Status Ailments, buff Characters or interact with the environment.
Chain Lightning Information
- Description: Strike an enemy with lightning. Three more bolts will leap from the target, electrifying as many as three other enemies within 18m. On Save: Targets still take half damage.
- Level: Lvl 6 spell
- School: Evocation School
- Casting Time:
Action - Range:
18m - Requires Concentration: No
- Saving Throw:
DEX Save
How to Acquire Chain Lightning
- Chain Lightning can be acquired by the following classes:
- Chain Lightning can be cast by using the following Items:
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Chain Lightning Tips & Notes
- A target with the
Wet condition is Vulnerable to Cold/Lightning damage and will sustain double damage from this spell. - Notes & Tips go here
It's not that good spell. In many situations cloudkill will be better. Cloudkill does 5d8 damage, but make it twice, so it's the same 10d8, but have large radius and can hit more enemies and can free cast 10 times in a row.
Chain lighting can have x2 damage by wet, but it's not really easy to do that, you need to have cleric or druid and UPCAST rain to have enough radius, because it's really small.
But it is good against steel watch because they vulnerable against lighting but it's the only exception. In any other situation cloudkill and better and cheaper.
- Anonymous
The no-nosense blaster spell.
Note: add water for bigger zap.
ZAP!
- Anonymous
For those looking to optimize chain lightning use: go 6 cleric 6 sorc, get amulet of devotee for 3 destructive wraths per short rest, , markoheshir lightning favour, Haste and quicken, freecast and arcane battery for: 3 chain lightnings, all doing the max damage possible, for up to 12 ticks. Wet enemies, lightning charges + some better armor like potent robes and you're reaching possibly 1500-2k damage in 1 character turn
- Anonymous
Love it ! With a quickened spell meta-magic and an item/s which allows you to not use a spell slot, you can just open combat with two consecutive chain lightnings and half of the enemies are down (200-300 damage with some decent rolls). Also this is highly recommendable to be played with a Storm sorcerer because of the class bonuses, amazing synergy.
- Anonymous
can bounces hit the same enmy twice? like if theres 2 enemies next to each oither will it just bounce between them 3 times?
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
This has not been working for me so far. Never seen the three lightning bolt spawning from my cast, either they save or not. Anybody same issue?
- Anonymous
No longer twinnable. Big nerf and a shame to all you Palpatine wannabes out there.
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