Lightning Bolt hits instantly: no arc, no travel time. It does 25 shock damage to Health and half that to Magicka, which makes it great against enemy mages – and handy against flying dragons, since you don’t need to lead your shots.
Spell details
- School: Destruction (Apprentice)
- Effect: A bolt of lightning that does 25 points of shock damage to Health and half that to Magicka.
- Base Magicka cost: 51
- Casting: Fire and Forget, aimed
- Spell tome: Spell Tome: Lightning Bolt – value 95 gold, ID 000A26FF
More Destruction spells
Flames (Novice), Frostbite (Novice), Sparks (Novice), Fire Rune (Apprentice), Firebolt (Apprentice), Frost Rune (Apprentice), Ice Spike (Apprentice), Lightning Rune (Apprentice), Chain Lightning (Adept), Fireball (Adept), Flame Cloak (Adept), Frost Cloak (Adept), Ice Storm (Adept), Lightning Cloak (Adept), Whirlwind Cloak (Adept), Icy Spear (Expert), Incinerate (Expert), Thunderbolt (Expert), Wall of Flames (Expert), Wall of Frost (Expert), Wall of Storms (Expert), Blizzard (Master), Fire Storm (Master), Lightning Storm (Master).
Cost, effect and tome value read from the Skyrim game files (base values before skill, perks and gear).