Primordial Stance

Stance. Channel the prime elements at their core, dealing damage based on your current attunements. Fully attuning deals the same condition twice. — In-game description

Primordial Stance

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Specialization

Weaver

Slot

Utility

Type

Stance

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

40183

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Primordial Stance

Stance. Channel the prime elements at their core, dealing damage based on your current attunements. Fully attuning deals the same condition twice.

  Damage: 88 (0.33)^?

   Burning (2s): 262 Damage

   Burning (10.5½s): 197 Damage

   Chilled (1s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

  ₈ Vulnerability (3s): +8% Incoming Damage, +8% Incoming Condition Damage

  ₂ Bleeding (6s): 264 Damage

  Primordial Stance (5s): Deal damage and inflict conditions based on your current attunements.

  Number of Targets: 5

  Maximum Count: 2

  Count Recharge: 20 seconds

  Count Recharge: 25 seconds

  Interval: 1 second

  Radius: 180

— In-game description

Related traits

Fire

• Burning Precision — Burning you inflict has increased duration and your critical hits gain a chance to inflict burning.
• Pyromancer's Training — Your fire-weapon skills gain reduced recharge. Deal increased strike damage to burning foes.
• Blinding Ashes — Inflict blindness on foes you burn. This trait can only affect the same enemy once per interval.

Earth

• Serrated Stones — Bleeding you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased damage to bleeding foes.

Water

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

Weaver

• Elemental Pursuit — Gain superspeed when inflicting inhibiting conditions on enemies.
• Bolstered Elements — Gain barrier when activating a Stance. Activate Lesser Stone Resonance when struck while below the health threshold.

Notes

• Switching attunements while the stance is active does change the conditions inflicted accordingly.
• Your character will occasionally shout one of the following lines upon activating this skill:
  • I see the pattern at last!
  • Your seams are showing.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 07, 2020	Burning duration has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds, with the PvP and WvW versions remaining at 1.5 seconds. Bleeding duration has been reduced from 8 seconds to 6 seconds globally.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased ammo recharge from 20 seconds to 25 seconds. Reduced burning duration from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds.
July 16, 2019	Reduced ammo recharge time from 25 seconds to 20 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Primordial Stance has been added to the game.