White Knight · 3rd Job · Support & utility
Lightning Charge
Lightning Charge was a 3rd job White Knight skill in Closed Online Test 2 (CoT2), kept here as a record: the Public Release has no 3rd job. In that test, at rank 30: MP -30; Imbues weapon with Lightning for 300 seconds; Damage +20%; 75% chance to be electrocuted.
Read from the Closed Online Test 2 client, pulled .
CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.The Public Release has no 3rd job. Lightning Charge is kept from Closed Online Test 2 with every rank as the test had it, so what this page says is the test’s, not the live game’s. What the release removed
Imbues your sword or blunt weapon with the Lightning element for a set duration to increase its power, granting a chance to electrocute enemies to stun them. Deals increased damage to lightning-weak enemies, but deals reduced damage to lightning-resistant enemies and cannot electrocute them. The effect is removed immediately if you equip a different weapon type or use a charge skill of a different element, and has a chance to be removed when using Charge Blow.
Available the moment you advance.
- Element
- Lightning
- what the client tags this cast as
- Lasts
- 5 min
- from the moment you cast it
- MP at max
- 30
- up from 20 at rank 1
Rank by rank
30 ranksMP -30; Imbues weapon with Lightning for 300 seconds; Damage +20%; 75% chance to be electrocuted
- MP
- 30
- lasts
- 5 min
- chance
- 75%
What ranking it up buys
iHow to read these rows
One row per number that moves rank to rank: what it is at rank 1, what it is at the last rank, and the difference. The track marks every rank at its own place between the two, so a skill that does most of its work in the first few ranks looks like one - and several do.
Every figure comes off the client’s own level rows rather than out of the tooltip sentence, so a rank the client is silent about is a gap here rather than a guess.
What it rolls
Lightning Charge has no damage roll of its own.
Nothing on its level rows is a damage or healing figure, so there is nothing to break down. What it changes is elsewhere on this page - and a buff with no roll is not a gap in the data, it is the answer.
Closed Online Test 2 to Public Release
iWhy a change might be missing
Each diff was generated on its own date and the rest of the snapshot was synced later, so a change made between the two would not appear here. Where they disagree, the rank rows above are the newer read.
CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.Removed in the Public Release; this page shows the skill as Closed Online Test 2 had it.
Closed Online Test 1 to Closed Online Test 2
Lightning Charge is new in Closed Online Test 2. It did not exist in Closed Online Test 1, so there is nothing to compare it against.
The rest of the White Knight book
iWhat this page still cannot tell you
How long a cast takes. The client ships a frame timing for every action, but the game scales an action by the weapon’s attack speed and the rule that does it is not in the export. So nothing here is milliseconds of real cast time, and nothing on this site prints damage per second.
How the search steps. The box says what area a cast catches, and three things about how it is searched are on no row anywhere: where the search starts, relative to your feet; the step it moves in, if it steps rather than sweeps; whether a wall or a platform edge stops it. Drawing them would mean taking somebody else’s reverse engineering of the client and presenting it as ours.
Whether it can be cast in the air, and what a monster’s defence does to the roll. No cast-position column exists, and the roll above is the number before anything on the other end is applied.
And all of it is Closed Online Test 2's: the Public Release does not have this skill.
Improved MP RecoveryCoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.20
Charged BlowCoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.30
Fire ChargeCoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.30
Ice ChargeCoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.30Lightning ChargeCoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.30
Elemental CrashCoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.20
Power GuardCoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.20