Overload Earth

Overload. Ride your stored earth magic around, granting protection to other allies you move over and crippling enemies, then deliver a final immobilizing blast of power to the area, leaving behind a dust cyclone that delivers the same effects as the overload. Using this skill causes the attunement to have a longer recharge. — In-game description

Overload Earth

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Specialization

Tempest

Slot

Profession mechanic

Attunement

Earth

Type

Overload

Activ. type

Channeled

Sequence

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Game link

API

29618

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Overload Earth

Overload. Ride your stored earth magic around, granting protection to other allies you move over and crippling enemies, then deliver a final immobilizing blast of power to the area, leaving behind a dust cyclone that delivers the same effects as the overload. Using this skill causes the attunement to have a longer recharge.

 Damage: 199 (0.75)^?

 Cripple (3s): -50% Movement Speed

 Bleeding (9s): 198 Damage

 Immobilize (4s): Unable to move.

 Protection (1s): -33% Incoming Damage

₃ Initial Stability (4s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Storm Duration: 4 seconds

 Interval: 1 second

 Radius: 240

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Breaks Stun

— In-game description

Related traits

Earth

• Serrated Stones — Bleeding you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased damage to bleeding foes.
• Earthen Blast — Gain barrier and cripple nearby foes when attuning to earth. Also triggers on overload skills. Barrier will not be gained when attuning to the same element.
• Strength of Stone — Gain condition damage based on your toughness. Inflict bleeding when you immobilize a foe. Bleeding can only occur on the same target once per interval.

Arcane

• Elemental Enchantment — Gain concentration and your attunements gain reduced recharge.
• Bountiful Power — Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.

Tempest

• Singularity — Attain elemental singularity by remaining in an attunement for a period of time. Upon attaining singularity, you may overload the attunement to your vicinity. Gain access to Shouts.
• Unstable Conduit — Overloads grant an aura based on your attunement.
• Harmonious Conduit — Gain stability and swiftness when starting an overload.
• Hardy Conduit — Overloads grant protection to nearby allies. Protection gains increased damage reduction.
• Transcendent Tempest — Time to attain singularity is reduced. Upon successfully completing an overload, gain increased damage.
• Lucid Singularity — Apply boons to nearby allies while channeling and when successfully completing a channel.

Notes

• Pulses for a total of 9 times (overload + dust cyclone).
  • Cyclone does not cause immobilization.
• Overload Earth affects up to 5 enemies while affecting up to 10 allies (counting the tempest) in pve and 5 allies in pvp and wvw.
• Direct damage scales with the equipped (main-hand) weapon. Default damage in PvE for exotic Dagger or Scepter is 275, for Staff 303, without weapon 199.
• Casts Earthen Blast at the beginning of the channel during combat only while using Earth specialization. Starting combat with Overload Earth will not trigger Earthen Blast.

Bug:

Per pulse on allies, per target, activates Signet of Restoration.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Maximum targets reduced from 10 to 5.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced the maximum number of targets from 10 to 5.
July 16, 2019	Casting this skills now triggers the trait Earthen Blast.
December 11, 2018	The number of targets this skill affects has been increased from 5 to 10.
January 26, 2016	Fixed a bug that caused this overload to deliver extra protection per pulse rather than the intended 1 second per pulse. Fixed a bug that caused the lingering damage to follow the elementalist around after the overload had completed.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Overload Earth has been added to the game.

Trivia

• The character will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on the status of Overload Earth.

Ready to channel	Starting to channel	Finished channeling
Ready to rock!	Landslide!	Back on solid ground!