Ice Spike

Ice Spike

0.75¾  6    

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

 

Attunement

Water

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“

Drop a giant ice spike on foes to make them vulnerable.

  Damage: 605 (1.5)^?

 ₅ Vulnerability (10s): 5% Incoming Damage, 5% Incoming Condition Damage

  Number of Targets: 5

  Radius: 300

  Combo Finisher: Blast

  Range: 1,200

— In-game description ^[?]

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Related traits

Water

•  Aquamancer's Training - Deal extra damage when your health is above the threshold. Reduces recharge on all water weapon skills.
•  Piercing Shards - While attuned to water, your spells deal more damage to vulnerable foes. Vulnerability lasts longer.

Notes

• Damage occurs after the vulnerability.
• If cancelled or interrupted, the animation will still play but will have no effect.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 20, 2017	The cooldown of this skill has been increased from 4 seconds to 6 seconds and now causes a blast finisher when the spike lands.
October 18, 2016	The casting time for this ability has been reduced from 1 second to 0.75 seconds. Aftercast of this ability has been reduced by 0.5 seconds.
July 26, 2016	Fixed a bug in which the animation became unsynchronized when this skill was used under the effects of quickness or slow.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Blasting Staff: The effects of this trait have been added to all staff-skill area attacks by default.
April 15, 2014	Fixed a bug that allowed the spell effects to continue even if the skill was canceled early.
January 28, 2013	This skill now appropriately displays area-of-effect rings.
November 15, 2012	This skill's tooltip now states the correct amount of vulnerability when traited.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Ice Spike has been added to the game.