Ice Spike/history

June 28, 2022

• Ice Spike: Increased power coefficient from 0.91 to 1.13 in PvP and WvW.

Ice Spike

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

 

Attunement

Water

Game link

“

0.75¾  6  

Ice Spike

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

 Damage: 605 (1.5)^?

 Damage: 456 (1.13)^?

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

₁₂ Vulnerability (6s): +12% Incoming Damage, +12% Incoming Condition Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 300

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

July 07, 2020

• Ice Spike: Reduced cooldown from 8 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP and WvW.

Ice Spike

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

 

Attunement

Water

Game link

“

0.75¾  6  

Ice Spike

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

 Damage: 605 (1.5)^?

 Damage: 367 (0.91)^?

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

₁₂ Vulnerability (6s): +12% Incoming Damage, +12% Incoming Condition Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 300

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

February 25, 2020

• Ice Spike: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.5 to 0.91. Adjusted vulnerability duration from 5 stacks for 10 seconds to 12 stacks for 6 seconds. Increased cooldown from 6 seconds to 8 seconds.

Ice Spike

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

 

Attunement

Water

Game link

“

0.75¾  

6

8

 

Ice Spike

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

 Damage: 605 (1.5)^?

 Damage: 367 (0.91)^?

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

₁₂ Vulnerability (6s): +12% Incoming Damage, +12% Incoming Condition Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 300

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

December 11, 2018

• Ice Spike: This skill now strikes first before applying vulnerability.

June 20, 2017

• Ice Spike: The cooldown of this skill has been increased from 4 seconds to 6 seconds and now causes a blast finisher when the spike lands.

Ice Spike

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

 

Attunement

Water

Game link

“

0.75¾  6  

Ice Spike

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

October 18, 2016

• Ice Spike: 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.

Ice Spike

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

 

Attunement

Water

Game link

“

0.75¾  4  

Ice Spike

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

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

July 26, 2016

• Ice Spike: Fixed a bug in which the animation became unsynchronized when this skill was used under the effects of quickness or slow.

June 23, 2015

• Blasting Staff: The effects of this trait have been added to all staff-skill area attacks by default.
  • Increased radius by 60.

Ice Spike

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

 

Attunement

Water

Game link

“

1  4  

Ice Spike

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

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

April 15, 2014

• Ice Spike: Fixed a bug that allowed the spell effects to continue even if the skill was canceled early.

January 28, 2013

• Ice Spikes [sic]: This skill now appropriately displays area-of-effect rings.

November 15, 2012

• Ice Spike: This skill's tooltip now states the correct amount of vulnerability when traited.

Original version

Ice Spike

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

 

Attunement

Water

“

1  4  

Ice Spike

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

 Damage: 554

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

 Radius: 240

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description