Gust

Push foes backward with a burst of air. — In-game description

Gust

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

Attunement

Air

Game link

API

5553

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0.25¼  25  

Gust

Push foes backward with a burst of air.

 Knockback: 400

 Number of Targets: 5

 Defiance Break: 150

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Air

• Stormsoul — Deal increased strike damage to disabled or defiant foes. Outgoing stun duration increased. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Aeromancer's Training — Gain ferocity, and gain additional ferocity while attuned to air. Air weapon skills get a reduced recharge time.
• Lightning Rod — Cast Lightning Rod when you disable a foe. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Arcane

• Elemental Lockdown — When you disable a foe, gain a boon based upon your current attunement.

Catalyst

• Vicious Empowerment — Gain Elemental Empowerment and might when you disable or immobilize a foe.

Notes

• This skill pierces.
• The projectile moves very slowly, making the skill unpractical against moving enemies; it is only reliable at point-blank range.
• The projectile from this skill keeps to the ground, meaning that it can be aimed only horizontally; its path vertically is always along the ground. It also means that targets cannot be hit if there is a gap or large elevation in the ground between the target and the caster (eg. harpy jumping puzzle in Uncategorized Fractal).

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 14, 2023	This skill is now ground-targetable.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: This skill will no longer queue; if able, it will interrupt other skills in order to cast.
June 20, 2017	The reliability of the Gust projectile has been improved.
April 19, 2016	The recharge time of this skill has been reduced from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
September 09, 2014	Fixed a bug that occasionally caused the effect of this skill to end early. Added a Number of Targets: 5 skill fact.
June 25, 2013	This skill now passes through enemies, striking multiple foes in a line.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Gust has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.