Gale

Knock down your foe with a charged wind blast. — In-game description

Gale

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Focus

Attunement

Air

Game link

API

5562

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0.75¾  40  

Gale

Knock down your foe with a charged wind blast.

 Knockdown: 4 seconds

 Knockdown: 3 seconds

 Defiance Break: 400

 Defiance Break: 300

 Unblockable

 Range: 900

— 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.
• Aeromancer's Training — Gain ferocity, and gain additional ferocity while attuned to air. Air weapon skills get a reduced recharge time.
• Lightning Rod — Cast Lightning Rod when you disable a foe. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Arcane

• Elemental Lockdown — When you disable a foe, gain a boon based upon your current attunement.

Catalyst

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

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
September 23, 2017	Fixed the knockdown skill fact so that it displays the correct duration.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: This skill will no longer queue; if able, it will interrupt other skills in order to cast.
January 26, 2016	The cooldown of this skill has been reduced from 50 seconds to 40 seconds. This attack is now unblockable. The skill facts have been updated to correctly display the knockdown duration difference between PvP (1 second) and PvE (2 seconds).
June 25, 2013	Reduced the aftercast by .4 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Gale has been added to the game.

Trivia

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