Overload Air

Overload. Use your air magic to summon a nimbus that repeatedly strikes nearby enemies. When this ability is complete, imbue your allies with electricity and create a lingering static region that strikes enemies at the same interval. Using this skill causes the attunement to have a longer recharge. — In-game description

Overload Air

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Specialization

Tempest

Slot

Profession mechanic

Attunement

Air

Type

Overload

Activ. type

Channeled

Sequence

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Game link

API

29719

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Overload Air

Overload. Use your air magic to summon a nimbus that repeatedly strikes nearby enemies. When this ability is complete, imbue your allies with electricity and create a lingering static region that strikes enemies at the same interval. Using this skill causes the attunement to have a longer recharge.

 Damage: 190 (0.715)^?

 Damage: 163 (0.612)^?

 Static Charge (s): Your next attack delivers a lightning strike.

 Vulnerability (10s): +1% Incoming Damage, +1% Incoming Condition Damage

 Number of Targets: 3

 Field Duration: 4 seconds

 Attack Interval: 0.5½ seconds

 Radius: 360

 Combo Field: Lightning

 Breaks Stun

 Range: 360

— In-game description

Related traits

Air

• Electric Discharge — Strike your target with a bolt of lightning when attuning to air. Also triggers on overload skills.

Water

• Piercing Shards — Vulnerability you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased strike damage to vulnerable foes. Damage bonus is doubled while attuned to water.

Arcane

• Elemental Enchantment — Gain concentration and your attunements gain reduced recharge.

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.
• Unstable Conduit — Overloads grant an aura based on your attunement.
• Harmonious Conduit — Gain stability and swiftness when starting an overload.
• Hardy Conduit — Overloads grant protection. Protection gains increased damage reduction.
• Transcendent Tempest — Time to attain singularity is reduced. Upon successfully completing an overload, gain increased damage.
• Lucid Singularity — Apply alacrity to nearby allies while channeling and when successfully completing a channel.

Notes

• Strikes an enemy up to 14 times.
• While it only damages 3 enemies, the Static Charge gets applied on 5 allies.
• Direct damage scales with the equipped (main-hand) weapon. Default damage in PvE for exotic Dagger or Scepter is 262, for Staff 289, without weapon 190.
• Casts Electric Discharge at the beginning of the channel during combat only while using Air specialization. Starting combat with Overload Air will not trigger Electric Discharge.

Bug:

Using Overload Air while riding a Zip Line will leave the character stuck in the animation if the channeling was interrupted by reaching the end of the Zip Line. This can be fixed by using a transformation such as tonics or Tornado, by using a different Overload skill while riding a Zip Line, or by relogging.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.765 to 0.612.
July 16, 2019	Increased damage of the Static Charge effect provided by this skill by 20%. Fixed a bug that prevented Electric Discharge from firing. Casting this skills now triggers the trait Electric Discharge.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: The total number of attacks has been reduced from 17 to 14.
February 22, 2017	The damage of this skill has been reduced by 7% in PvE only.
July 26, 2016	The damage of this skill has been reduced by 10%.
November 17, 2015	Reduced the visual noise on the effects associated with this skill.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Overload Air has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The character will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on the status of Overload Air.

Ready to channel	Starting to channel	Finished channeling
Charged up!	Lightning bolt!	That was a blast!