Originally Posted by Letho
As we can see, lightning blockade will send no combat event after it has been successfully cast, so the only way of determining if the cast was successful is waiting for it to deal the first damage tick.
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Blockade fires off 4 EVENT_EFFECT_CHANGED (
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However - there is still a slight delay between action bar events and effects firing off. Also its worth nothing that if the player has their weapon sheathed the action bar events all fire off but the effect is delayed by the duration of the weapon draw animation.