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Ride the Lightning
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Ride the Lightning
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“Ride the lightning to your foe, then strike all nearby foes with an electrical burst. If a foe is hit by the burst, the skill's recharge is halved.— In-game description [?]
[edit] Notes
- Using this skill puts you under the Ride the Lightning effect for 2 second, during which you will move at a rate of 600 units per second and cannot use skills or swap attunements.
- The effect ends early if you are knocked down, die, enter underwater mode, or reach your target.
- Unlike Mist Form, you can still take take damage while riding the lightning.
- Without a target, you will move forward the full distance or until you hit an obstacle. If a foe is targeted, you continue moving until you hit your opponent, tracking its forward motion. However, if the target changes course during the two seconds, you will miss.
- Although the skill's obvious use is to close the distance on a target, it is frequently used to escape foes or quickly travel across a map. The skill can also be used to move across gaps that are too far to jump.
- Without a target, you will move forward 1,200 units and stop. With a target, you will move until you are at the same map coordinates (i.e
x, y axes) as the target. - While crossing the gap, you will lose vertical height (i.e. along the
z-axis), as if under the effects of gravity. - Once you stop, if nothing is below you, you will fall until you hit the surface. If the distance is far enough, you will suffer falling damage and enter combat; as with any fall, you can be defeated or even die if the drop is too far.
- Without a target, you will move forward 1,200 units and stop. With a target, you will move until you are at the same map coordinates (i.e
- Using the skill with auto-targeting enabled will often cause you to travel in an unexpected direction or aggro foes that you meant to avoid.
[edit] Trivia
- A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.
- The original target range was 1550; this was changed in the April 30, 2013 update to match the 1200 stated in the tooltip.
- The name is a reference to the Metallica song Ride the Lightning.
