Ring of Earth

Use the earth to launch yourself into the air and strike foes in a small radius. Deliver a larger ring of earthen spikes upon impact. — In-game description

Ring of Earth

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Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand dagger

Attunement

Earth

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Use the earth to launch yourself into the air and strike foes in a small radius. Deliver a larger ring of earthen spikes upon impact.

  Initial Damage: 121 (0.33)^?

  Initial Damage: 37 (0.1)^?

  Final Impact Damage: 440 (1.2)^?

  Final Impact Damage: 330 (0.9)^?

 ₃ Bleeding (6s): 396 Damage

 ₂ Bleeding (6s): 264 Damage

  Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed

  Number of Impacts: 2

  Number of Targets: 5

  Blocks Missiles

  Initial Radius: 180

  Final Impact: 240

— In-game description ^[?]

Related traits

Earth

• Serrated Stones — Bleeding you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased damage to bleeding foes.
• Geomancer's Training — Strike damage from nearby foes is reduced. Earth weapon skills gain reduced recharge.

Weaver

• Elemental Pursuit — Gain superspeed when inflicting inhibiting conditions on enemies.

Notes

• The missile blocking lasts for ~2 seconds. It seems to have approximately 240 radius, like the final impact. The missile blocking occurs at the initial damage.

Bug:

Tooltip damage calculation adds 32 to the weapon strength midpoint, reporting marginally higher damage.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced initial strike power coefficient from 0.33 to 0.1. Reduced final strike power coefficient from 1.2 to 0.9. Reduced bleeding stacks per strike from 3 to 2.
April 23, 2019	This skill has been slightly reworked. It now delivers an attack early in the animation, and then another attack upon impacting the ground. Bleeding duration per impact has been reduced from 12 seconds to 6 seconds. Initial impact damage is 27.5% of the final impact. Final impact damage has not changed from the skill's initial value.
May 08, 2018	The bleeding application of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now apply 3 stacks of bleeding in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Increased the number of bleeding stacks from 1 to 3 in PvP and WvW.
September 09, 2014	Added a Blocks Missiles skill fact.
December 10, 2013	Added a range indicator.
May 28, 2013	No longer destroys unblockable projectiles.
October 22, 2012	This skill now applies cripple.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Ring of Earth has been added to the game.