Difference between revisions of "Lightning Damage"

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Lightning is one of the types of elemental damage in Diablo III. It is blue/white-tinted in appearance and singes bodies, leaving them blackened and crackled, with small bolts of lightning playing over them. Deaths to critical hits of lightning damage causes bodies to explode into blackened chunks with a great burst of light.

Lightning damage is dealt by a wide variety of character skills and can be found on weapons as well.

Some monsters deal lighting damage with their attacks and it's commonly-seen in the Electrified boss modifier which sends out charges each time the boss is hit.

The Lightning resistance mitigates damage taken by lightning attacks.

Lightning Damage Effects[edit | edit source]

A wizard casts Electrocute.

All secondary elemental damage effects except for Cold were removed shortly before release. When it was in the game, Critical Hits of Lightning damage had a stunning effect on enemies.

Many elemental effects, including lightning, are likely to return to Diablo 3 in the expansion pack, Reaper of Souls.

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-Lightning is one of the types of [[damage]] in Diablo III. It is blue/white-tinted in appearance.
+Lightning is one of the types of [[elemental]] [[damage]] in Diablo III. It is blue/white-tinted in appearance and singes bodies, leaving them blackened and crackled, with small bolts of lightning playing over them. Deaths to critical hits of lightning damage causes bodies to explode into blackened chunks with a great burst of light.
-Lightning damage is dealt by a wide variety of character skills and spells, and can be added to skills with [[runestone]]s. It is also a common modifier found on items.
+Lightning damage is dealt by a wide variety of character skills and can be found on weapons as well.
-Numerous monsters cast Lightning-based spells or add lightning to their attacks. Bosses may manifest it with the [[Electrified]] boss modifier.
+Some monsters deal lighting damage with their attacks and it's commonly-seen in the [[Electrified]] boss modifier which sends out charges each time the boss is hit.
-Lightning damage can be [[resist]]ed, as well as [[reduce]]d or [[absorb]]ed, but not [[block]]ed (except in [[Charged Bolt]] form).
+The Lightning resistance mitigates damage taken by lightning attacks.
-[[Critical hits]] scored with Lightning damage [[stun]] targets for 2 seconds.
+==Lightning Damage Effects==
-==Diablo III Damage Types==
+[[File:Wiz-electrocute1.jpg|thumb|300px|A [[wizard]] casts [[Electrocute]].]]
+All secondary elemental damage effects except for [[Cold]] were removed shortly before release. When it was in the game, [[Critical Hits]] of Lightning damage had a stunning effect on enemies.
+Many elemental effects, including lightning, are likely to return to Diablo 3 in the expansion pack, [[Reaper of Souls]].
-[[File:Wiz-electrocute1.jpg|thumb|300px|A [[wizard]] casts [[Electrocute]].]]
-Blizzard's [[@Diablo]] Twitter feed added some clarification about damage types in posts made in early December 2010.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-on-damage-types-and-resistances/]
-<blockquote>any change in the range of damage types to include holy, shadow, voodoo or anything else to match the classes? —Scyberdragon<br>
-Damage types will likely change some but are currently [[Physical]], [[Fire]], [[Lightning]], [[Cold]], [[Poison]], [[Disease]], [[Arcane]], and [[Holy]]. —Diablo
-<br><br>
-Whats the difference between poison and disease damage?—WickedBubba<br>
-Disease has a damage debuff (both intake and output), and poison has a health debuff (regen/heal). Subject to change of course.—Diablo
-<br><br>
-Is there much difference between poison and disease? They’re both internal maladies that hurt over a period of time.—Grug<br>
-Fairly significant in their difference, but both countered with a single resistance. Damage/resists aren’t design complete though.—Diablo</blockquote>
 [[category:combat]]
+[[category:lightning]]
 [[category:damage]]