Elemental Surge

Arcane skills grant increased ferocity and inflict a condition based on your attunement. — In-game description

Elemental Surge

Specialization

Arcane (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Elemental Surge

Arcane skills grant increased ferocity and inflict a condition based on your attunement.

   Burning (4s): 524 Damage

   Chilled (3s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

   Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

   Immobilize (2s): Unable to move.

   Immobilize (1s): Unable to move.

  Arcane Lightning (15s): Increases your ferocity.

  Ferocity: +150

— In-game description

Related skills

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   Arcane Brilliance — Arcane

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Arcane Blast — Arcane
•   Arcane Power — Arcane
•   Arcane Shield — Arcane
•   Arcane Wave — Arcane
•   Arcane Blast — Arcane

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Lesser Arcane Shield — Final Shielding

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Fire

• Burning Precision — Burning you inflict has increased duration and your critical hits gain a chance to inflict burning.
• Pyromancer's Training — Your fire-weapon skills gain reduced recharge. Deal increased strike damage to burning foes.
• Blinding Ashes — Inflict blindness on foes you burn. This trait can only affect the same enemy once per interval.

Earth

• Strength of Stone — Gain condition damage based on your toughness. Inflict bleeding when you immobilize a foe. Bleeding can only occur on the same target once per interval.

Weaver

• Elemental Pursuit — Gain superspeed when inflicting inhibiting conditions on enemies.

Catalyst

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

Notes

• Arcane Brilliance, Arcane Blast, Arcane Wave, Arcane Shield and Final Shielding will inflict the condition to each target they hit.
• Arcane Power triggers the effect with the next 4 sources of damage. Conditions caused by allies use the caster's condition damage rather than their own.
• Ferocity grants +1% critical damage per 15 points, so the added critical damage is 10% for a level 80 character.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	This trait no longer reduces the cooldown of arcane skills.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced immobilize duration from 2 seconds to 1 second.
May 18, 2017	The burn duration from this skill has been reduced to 4 seconds from 5 seconds.
May 17, 2017	When used with Arcane Power, this trait now considers the caster of the ability as the source when dealing conditions and will apply them based on the caster's current attunement.
October 18, 2016	Immobilize duration has been increased from 1 second to 2 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. Added: Gain 150 more ferocity for 15 seconds when you use an arcane skill. Added: Arcane abilities recharge 20% faster.
May 28, 2013	Now functions correctly with the Arcane Shield while the player is attuned to air.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Elemental Surge has been added to the game.