"Aftershock!"

Shout. Call upon the earth to cripple and immobilize foes in the area around you. Allies in the initial blast gain a magnetic aura. — In-game description

"Aftershock!"

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Specialization

Tempest

Slot

Utility

Type

Shout

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

30432

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"Aftershock!"

Shout. Call upon the earth to cripple and immobilize foes in the area around you. Allies in the initial blast gain a magnetic aura.

 Damage (2x): 398 (1.5)^?

 Damage (2x): 26 (0.1)^?

 Magnetic Aura (4s): Reflect projectiles with magnetic energy.

 Protection (5s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Protection (3s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Aegis (5s): Block the next incoming attack.

 Cripple (6s): -50% Movement Speed

 Immobilize (2s): Unable to move.

 Immobilize (3s): Unable to move.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Blast Radius: 240

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Range: 600

— In-game description

Related traits

Fire

• Smothering Auras — Fire auras have increased duration. Applying auras to allies removes conditions, and transmuting auras removes conditions from nearby allies.

Air

• Zephyr's Boon — Grant boons to allies you grant auras to.

Earth

• Elemental Shielding — Auras you grant to allies also grant protection.
• Strength of Stone — Gain condition damage based on your toughness. Inflict bleeding when you immobilize a foe. Bleeding can only occur on the same target once per interval.

Water

• Flow like Water — Deal increased strike damage when your health is above the threshold. Blocking or evading an attack heals you.
• Powerful Aura — Any aura you grant yourself is granted to nearby allies.

Arcane

• Bountiful Power — Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.

Tempest

• Singularity — Attain elemental singularity by remaining in an attunement for a period of time. Upon attaining singularity, you may overload the attunement to your vicinity. Gain access to Shouts.
• Tempestuous Aria — Using a shout grants allies might. Granting an aura to an ally increases your outgoing damage for a period of time.
• Invigorating Torrents — Auras you grant also grant regeneration and vigor.
• Hardy Conduit — Overloads grant protection. Protection gains increased damage reduction.
• Elemental Bastion — Heal allies you grant an aura to. Grant frost aura to nearby allies when struck while below the health threshold.

Notes

• The cripple, Magnetic Aura and 1st instance of damage are applied instantly. Blast Finisher, Immobile and 2nd damage are applied after 1 second.
• Both instances of damage occur at the initial location of the caster.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Cooldown reduced from 35 seconds to 30 seconds. Now also applies aegis to allies for 5 seconds.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: The tempest's shout skills have had their maximum targets reduced from 10 to 5.
December 01, 2020	Shout Skills: Increased the maximum number of targets from 5 to 10 in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced total power coefficient from 1.5 to 0.1. Increased immobilize duration from 2 seconds to 3 seconds. Reduced protection duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds. Reduced cooldown from 35 seconds to 30 seconds.
March 05, 2019	This skill now applies 5 seconds of protection to nearby allies in addition to its other effects.
October 02, 2018	The cooldown of this skill has been reduced from 45 seconds to 35 seconds in PvE only.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: "Aftershock!" has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The skills Shock and Aftershock formed an elementalist melee synergy combo in the original Guild Wars.