Lightning Breath

Beast. Breathe bolts of lightning that bounce to nearby foes. — In-game description

Lightning Breath

 

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Pet

River Drake

Slot

Pet (skill list)

Type

Beast

Game link

API

12698

This skill has an underwater replacement: Electrocute (river drake)

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10.5½  

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25

 

Lightning Breath

Beast. Breathe bolts of lightning that bounce to nearby foes.

 Damage (5x): 685 (0.33)^?

 Damage (5x): 570 (0.275)^?

 Number of Bounces: 3

 Range: 600

— In-game description

Related traits

Wilderness Survival

• Carnivore — Steal health from enemies when you or your pet disable them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Poison Master — Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.

Nature Magic

• Rejuvenation — Beast skills now grant regeneration around the ranger.
• Invigorating Bond — Beast skills heal allies around the ranger.

Beastmastery

• Pack Alpha — Your pet's attributes are improved and pet skills gain recharge reduction. Improved attributes are power, condition damage, precision, toughness, and vitality.
• Go for the Eyes — Nearby foes are blinded by Beast abilities.
• Wilting Strike — Beast abilities inflict weakness on those struck. This effect will only occur once on each target struck by an ability.
• Beastly Warden — Beast abilities taunt nearby foes.

Soulbeast

• Live Fast — Using a Beast ability grants you offensive boons.

Notes

• After this skill's initial cast time, the attack itself is channeled over 1.5 seconds.
• Fires 5 bolts over the full duration of the channel; each bolt bounces up to 2 times and is capable of hitting the same target multiple times.
• Each bolt is treated as a projectile and can be reflected or blocked.
• Each bounce has a maximum range of roughly 400 units.

Bug:

This skill's tooltip is missing multiple skill facts.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE and from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in WvW and PvP. Reduced the power coefficient from 0.33 to 0.275 in WvW and PvP.
June 25, 2013	Reduced the damage by 17%.
April 30, 2013	Reduced cast time from 2.7 seconds to 1.5 seconds. The lightning from this attack no longer tracks targets.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Lightning Breath has been added to the game.