Quote Originally Posted by Bollwerk View Post
Maybe this changed with MoP, but in Cataclysm, Chain Lightning was only good for 2+ targets.
For single targets, Lightning Bolt was better DPS.
It changed in late beta, where CL was doing more single target than lightning bolt; but they reduced the single target dmg and increased the jump % slightly so the total dmg on 5 targets (if glyphed) wasn't nerfed too much.