Lightning Storm (Glyph of Storms skill)

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Lightning Storm

Not available underwater  Ground-targeted  
Profession
Elementalist icon small.png Elementalist (skill list)
Parent skill
 Glyph of Storms.png Glyph of Storms
Slot
Utility
Attunement
Air
Type
Glyph
Game link
API
5737
“
10.25¼ Activation time  60 Recharge time  
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.png Damage: 219 (0.825)?
Damage.png Minimum Damage: 66 (0.2475)?
Damage.png Damage Reduction per Hit: 5%
Vulnerability.png2 Vulnerability (8s): +2% Incoming Damage, +2% Incoming Condition Damage
Miscellaneous effect.png Number of Impacts: 36
Duration.png Duration: 9 seconds
Radius.png Radius: 240
Range.png Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits[edit]

Air Air

Water Water

Notes[edit]

  • 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.png Damage: 3,521 (13.24125)?

Version history[edit]

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[edit]

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