Transmute Lightning

Cause your shocking aura to violently explode, stunning enemies who are struck by it. — In-game description

Transmute Lightning

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand dagger

Attunement

Air

Sequence

 → 

Game link

API

51662

“

0.5½  

10

3

 

Transmute Lightning

Cause your shocking aura to violently explode, stunning enemies who are struck by it.

 Damage: 550 (1.5)^?

 Damage: 4 (0.01)^?

 Stun: 1 second

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Defiance Break: 100

— In-game description

Related traits

Fire

• Smothering Auras — Fire auras have increased duration. Applying auras to allies removes conditions, and transmuting auras removes conditions from nearby allies.

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.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Damage multiplier increased from 1 to 1.5.
March 29, 2022	Reduced cooldown from 10 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.01.
October 02, 2018	The cooldown of this skill has been reduced from 25 seconds to 10 seconds as originally intended.
August 28, 2018	Transmute Lightning has been added to the game.

See also

•   Transmute Fire
•   Transmute Frost
•   Transmute Earth