Call Lightning (Ranger)

This article is about the Storm Spirit skill. For other skills of the same name, see Call Lightning.

Your storm spirit slams the ground and generates a powerful blast of electricity. — In-game description

Call Lightning

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Spirit

Sequence

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Game link

API

12594, 12598

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Call Lightning

Your storm spirit slams the ground and generates a powerful blast of electricity.

 Damage: 2,232 (2.0)^?

 Damage: 2,232 (1.275)^?

 Daze: 2 seconds

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 360

 Defiance Break: 200

— In-game description

^{[verification requested]}

Related traits

Marksmanship

• Moment of Clarity — Gain an attack of opportunity for you and your pet on interrupting a foe. Daze and stun durations that you inflict last longer. This trait can only grant an attack of opportunity against enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Predator's Onslaught — You and your pet deal increased strike damage to disabled, defiant, or movement-impaired foes. Affected conditions are stun, taunt, daze, cripple, fear, immobilize, and chilled.

Nature Magic

• Nature's Vengeance — Spirits slam again when they finish shaking.

Beastmastery

• Two-Handed Training — Greatsword and spear skills deal more damage and recharge faster. Gain fury when you disable a foe.

Druid

• Blood Moon — Daze enemies when you become a celestial avatar. Inflict bleeding on enemies you immobilize or disable.

Soulbeast

• Twice as Vicious — Disabling a foe increases your damage and condition damage for a short duration.

Untamed

• Debilitating Blows — Disabling a foe applies conditions to that foe based on your current state. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Enhancing Impact — Disabling a foe grants you boons based on your current state. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Notes

• The damage from this skill ignores all stats and modifiers from the ranger.
• When the Nature's Vengeance trait is used, this skill provides Fury to 10 players from the trait despite the fact its tooltip doesn't reflect this.^{[verification requested]} The effects of Call Lightning are still limited by its 5 enemy target cap.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 18, 2023	Storm Spirit: Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE only. Increased fury duration from 1.5 seconds to 2 seconds in PvE only. Increased power coefficient from 1.0 to 2.0 in PvE only.
June 27, 2023	Spirits have been reworked. A spirit will now grant an initial effect when summoned, slam the ground for a secondary effect, and then grant boons to nearby allies for a period of time.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
March 05, 2019	Spirit Active Skills: These skills no longer sacrifice the spirit and instead cause them to teleport to the ranger's location before the spirit uses their active skill. These skills now have a 0.25-second casting time. The recharge time for these skills remains at 20 seconds. Reduced the duration of daze that this skill applies to foes from 3 seconds to 1 second.
September 29, 2015	Fixed a bug so that the daze will properly be increased by daze-increasing effects.
July 07, 2015	Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from properly applying daze.
June 24, 2015	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from properly recharging when used.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: All ranger spirit's active abilities have had their maximum targets increased to 5. All ranger spirit's active abilities are more potent and sacrifice the spirit. The recharge of all nonelite ranger spirits has been reduced to 20 seconds. Storm Spirit: The activate ability now inflicts a 3-second daze.
September 30, 2014	Spirits: Added a red indicator ring to spirit attacks to show range for opponents.
December 10, 2013	Reduced the damage from the Call Lightning by 33%.
August 20, 2013	Added a damage skill fact and a radius skill fact.
June 25, 2013	Increased the damage by 150%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Call Lightning has been added to the game.