Lightning Storm (Glyph of Storms skill)

Glyph. Create a lightning storm at the targeted area. Damage is reduced per target each time foes are struck by this skill. — In-game description

Lightning Storm

   

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Parent skill

  Glyph of Storms

Slot

Utility

Attunement

Air

Type

Glyph

Game link

API

5737

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10.25¼  60  

Lightning Storm

Glyph. Create a lightning storm at the targeted area.
Damage is reduced per target each time foes are struck by this skill.

 Damage: 219 (0.825)^?

 Minimum Damage: 66 (0.2475)^?

 Damage Reduction per Hit: 5%

₂ Vulnerability (8s): +2% Incoming Damage, +2% Incoming Condition Damage

 Number of Impacts: 36

 Duration: 9 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Air

• Inscription — Gain boons upon casting a glyph based on your attunement.

Water

• Piercing Shards — Vulnerability you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased strike damage to vulnerable foes. Damage bonus is doubled while attuned to water.

Notes

• Impact radius is 90, unlisted in tooltip.
• The minimum damage it can deal per hit is 30% of its max which will start occuring at the 15th hit.
• Assuming all 36 impacts hit, it will do a total of

 Damage: 3,521 (13.24125)^?

• Typically hits the Special Forces training golem about 20 times, resulting in a power coefficient of 9.28125, or 11.25x its listed damage.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 23, 2019	Fixed an issue in which this skill ignored the Disable Player Camera Shake option.
July 10, 2018	The initial damage of this skill has been increased by 65% and will now inflict reduced damage on each subsequent hit by 5%, to a minimum of 30%.
May 22, 2018	Fixed a bug in which this skill required a full cooldown in situations where it should have required an interrupt cooldown.
May 08, 2018	The recharge time of storms will now be based on the player's attunement.
February 06, 2018	All storm glyph variants go on cooldown whenever one glyph is cast.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Fixed a bug that caused all impacts to fall within a smaller than intended radius when casting this skill.
October 15, 2013	Increased the impact radius from 60 to 90. (unlisted on skill tool-tip)
August 28, 2012	Game release: Lightning Storm has been added to the game.

Trivia

• An unimplemented Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.