Conduit Surge

Leap toward your target, unleashing intense energy on the area if you strike them. Your primary target becomes the focus of your other skills. If a focused target dies, this skill is refreshed. — In-game description

Conduit Surge

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

73122

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Conduit Surge

Leap toward your target, unleashing intense energy on the area if you strike them. Your primary target becomes the focus of your other skills. If a focused target dies, this skill is refreshed.

 Focused Target Damage: 440 (1.2)^?

 Unfocused Target Damage: 367 (1)^?

₃ Focused Target Burning (6s): 2,358 Damage

₂ Focused Target Burning (6s): 1,572 Damage

₃ Unfocused Target Burning (4s): 1,572 Damage

₂ Unfocused Target Burning (4s): 1,048 Damage

 Focused Duration (10s): Spear skills have bonus effect against Focused targets.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 180

 Combo Finisher: Leap

 Range: 450

— In-game description

Related traits

Firearms

• Modified Ammunition — Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.
• Incendiary Powder — Burning you inflict lasts longer, and your critical hits inflict burning.

Notes

Focused indicator above the enemy's head.

• Conduit Surge only applies a visual indicator for the focused effect. No icon will appear on the enemy's bar.
• When using this skill, there are 2 behaviors depends on the distance between you and the targeted enemy.
  • Within 450 units: dashes directly to the targeted enemy and hits them.
  • More than 450 units or not targeting any enemy: dashes a fixed distance of 450 units and will hit any enemy within that dash path.

Bug:

In some situations, this skill will sometimes not apply the focused effect within the skill range correctly, including enemies moved at the end of skill casting, or being interrupted by bumps on the terrain.

^{[verification requested]}

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 11, 2025	This skill has been condensed into a single dash. Reduced the cooldown from 6 seconds to 5 seconds in PvE only. (Undocumented) Skill id updated, listed range updated.
August 20, 2024	Janthir Wilds release: Conduit Surge has been added to the game. Added visual effects to help engineers identify their focused targets. Updated this skill so that Focused can only affect one target at a time. Successfully applying Focused now applies a Focusing effect to the engineer to help indicate time left on the focused target. Increased the burning stacks from 2 to 3 in PvE and from 1 to 2 in PvP and WvW. Reduced the focused burning duration from 8 seconds to 6 seconds and the unfocused burning duration from 6 seconds to 4 seconds in PvE only. Reduced the cooldown from 8 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP and WvW.
June 27, 2024	Conduit Surge was available during the Spear Beta Event.