Static Field

This article is about the elementalist skill. For other uses, see Static Field (disambiguation).

Create an electrical field that stuns foes crossing it. — In-game description

Animation

Static Field

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

Attunement

Air

Game link

API

5671

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0.75¾  30  

Static Field

Create an electrical field that stuns foes crossing it.

 Damage: 202 (0.5)^?

 Damage: 4 (0.01)^?

 Stun: 2 seconds

 Number of Targets: 10

 Duration: 4 seconds

 Radius: 180

 Combo Field: Lightning

 Defiance Break: 200

 Range: 1,200

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Related traits

Air

• Stormsoul — Deal increased strike damage to disabled or defiant foes. Outgoing stun duration increased. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Aeromancer's Training — Gain ferocity, and gain additional ferocity while attuned to air. Air weapon skills get a reduced recharge time.
• Lightning Rod — Cast Lightning Rod when you disable a foe. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Arcane

• Elemental Lockdown — When you disable a foe, gain a boon based upon your current attunement.

Catalyst

• Vicious Empowerment — Gain Elemental Empowerment and might when you disable or immobilize a foe.

Notes

• Inflicts the stun and damage when an enemy enters or exits its area (either through movement or teleporting skills).
• This skill performs an initial strike that deals 200 Defiance Break when deployed in PvE.
• Cannot be evaded.
• An undocumented change was made for the balance patch on August 8, 2017, the field no longer stuns enemies that are on the edge of the AoE upon placement.

Bug:

Sometimes, hitting the Static Field area will daze instead of stunning the target.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	This skill now performs an initial strike that deals defiance-bar damage when deployed in PvE.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.5 to 0.01.
May 08, 2018	The cooldown of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the lower 30-second cooldown in all modes.
June 20, 2017	The radius of this ability has been decreased from 240 to 180.
February 22, 2017	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 40 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP only.
April 19, 2016	The number of times this skill can be used to attempt to stun an enemy has been capped at 10.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Blasting Staff: The effects of this trait have been added to all staff-skill area attacks by default.
April 15, 2014	Fixed a bug that allowed players to block the lightning field.
December 10, 2013	The strike from this skill will no longer be limited by range or line of sight, making it consistent with the stun portion of the skill.
October 15, 2013	Increased the combo ring radius to match the spell radius.
June 25, 2013	Reduced the aftercast by .3 seconds.
February 26, 2013	This field will now properly stun enemies that cross it rather than merely dazing them.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Static Field has been added to the game.