Crashing Waves

Command your ice elemental to knock back its target and then release a wave of water that heals allies and removes a condition. — In-game description

Crashing Waves

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Slot

Elite

Sequence

 → 

Game link

API

25492

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Crashing Waves

Command your ice elemental to knock back its target and then release a wave of water that heals allies and removes a condition.

 Damage: 1,194 (0.75)^?

 Healing: 6,410 (1.0)^?

 Conditions Removed: 1

 Knockback: 180

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Defiance Break: 150

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

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.
• Lightning Rod — Cast Lightning Rod when you disable a foe. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Water

• Aquamancer's Training — Increase healing to other allies. Water-weapon skills gain reduced recharge.

Arcane

• Elemental Lockdown — When you disable a foe, gain a boon based upon your current attunement.
• Final Shielding — Cast Lesser Arcane Shield when you use an elite skill.

Weaver

• Bolstered Elements — Gain protection when activating a Stance. Activate Lesser Stone Resonance when using an elite skill.

Catalyst

• Vicious Empowerment — Gain Elemental Empowerment and might when you disable or immobilize a foe.

Notes

• The direct damage is unaffected by any modifiers such as power or might.
• The animation appears to come from the ice elemental. However, only the knockback originates from the elemental. The healing and cleansing comes from the player themselves.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: The cast time of the initial portion of this skill has been reduced by 1.6 seconds. The number of targets knocked back has been increased from 1 to 3. The healing attribute multiplier has been increased by 300%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Crashing Waves has been added to the game.