Chain Lightning

This article is about the elementalist staff skill. For the bundle skill, see Chain Lightning (turret).

Hit multiple foes with arcs of chain lightning. — In-game description

Chain Lightning

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

Attunement

Air

Game link

API

5518

“

0.75¾  

Chain Lightning

Hit multiple foes with arcs of chain lightning.

 Damage: 323 (0.8)^?

 Damage: 178 (0.44)^?

 Number of Bounces: 3

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Notes

Bug:

Despite the skill description, Chain Lightning actually bounces twice, resulting in 3 total hits.

• Attack speed is approximately 1.17 seconds per attack.
• If there is only one valid target for this skill, it will hit that target once. If there are two valid targets for this skill, it will hit the first target, bounce to the second target, and then chain back to hit the first target a second time.
• The third hit does 12% less damage than the first two (0.704 coefficient).
• This skill's projectile is homing, meaning that it will track its target for a certain amount of time.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Damage multiplier increased from 0.66 to 0.8.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.66 to 0.44.
June 25, 2013	Reduced the aftercast by .1 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Chain Lightning has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.