Lightning Storm (Glyph of Storms skill)

Lightning Storm

 10.25¼  60    

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Parent skill

 

 Glyph of Storms

Slot

Utility

Attunement

Air

Type

Glyph

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Glyph. Create a lightning storm at the target 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: 9s

  Radius: 240

  Range: 900

— In-game description ^[?]

Related traits

See also: Glyph of Storms#Related traits

Water

•  Piercing Shards - Vulnerability you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased 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)^?

Trivia

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

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.