Invoke Lightning

Randomly strike the surrounding area with lightning. Damage is reduced per target each time foes are struck by this skill. — In-game description

Invoke Lightning

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Parent skill

  Conjure Lightning Hammer

Bundle

Lightning Hammer

Game link

API

5725

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10.25¼  20  

Invoke Lightning

Randomly strike the surrounding area with lightning.
Damage is reduced per target each time foes are struck by this skill.

 Damage: 293 (0.825)^?

 Minimum Damage: 85 (0.24)^?

 Damage Reduction per Hit: 10%

 Number of Impacts: 20

 Radius: 360

— In-game description

Notes

• Damage listed is per hit. Like Frost Storm, smaller AOEs appear (around the player) within the indicated radius. The lightning bolts hitting are smaller in radius, making this skill more effective against targets with big hitboxes, particularly large ones that can be hit by all of the lightning AOEs.
• The animation is misleading as it depicts fewer than the 20 lighting strikes that this skill creates.
• Despite what the skill description suggests, 50% of the lighting strikes are guaranteed to strike an enemy within the area instead of a random point.
• Damage reaches the minimum on the 9th hit, where its total power coefficient will be 4.53.
• If all 20 strikes hit the same target, the power coefficient will be 7.17.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 23, 2019	Fixed an issue in which this skill ignored the Disable Player Camera Shake option.
July 24, 2018	Fixed a tooltip error that incorrectly displayed the number of impacts as 18 rather than 20. Fixed a bug that caused this skill to deal approximately 17% less damage than intended.
July 10, 2018	This skill has been renamed Invoke Lightning. Initial damage has been increased by 60% and will now inflict reduced damage on each subsequent hit by 10%, to a minimum of 30%.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill has been partially reworked. Lightning bolts will occur over a longer duration, with 50% of the bolts guaranteed to attack a target within the radius. The final attack delivered by the storm guarantees attacks on up to five targets. The number of attacks has been increased from 10 to 12.
April 15, 2014	Added a skill fact for number of impacts. Updated the description of this skill to be more accurate.
October 15, 2013	Increased the lightning impact radius from 60 to 120. This skill can now be used while moving.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Lightning Storm has been added to the game.