Storm Spirit

Spirit. Summon a storm spirit at a target location and apply vulnerability to nearby enemies. The spirit will slam the ground and then shake, granting boons to nearby allies. — In-game description

Storm Spirit

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Spirit

Sequence

 → 

Summons

Storm Spirit

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

12493

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Storm Spirit

Spirit. Summon a storm spirit at a target location and apply vulnerability to nearby enemies. The spirit will slam the ground and then shake, granting boons to nearby allies.

₁₀ Vulnerability (10s): +10% Incoming Damage, +10% Incoming Condition Damage

₁₀ Vulnerability (6s): +10% Incoming Damage, +10% Incoming Condition Damage

₄ Fury (2s): +25% Critical Chance

₄ Fury (10.5½s): +25% Critical Chance

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 360

 Range: 600

— In-game description

Mechanics

• Summons a Storm Spirit (NPC) which immediately applies Vulnerability to surrounding enemies and slams to cast Call Lightning (Ranger), then shakes 4 times, giving Fury every shake.

Related traits

Marksmanship

• Remorseless — Regain opening strike whenever you gain fury. Opening strike deals more damage.

Skirmishing

• Vicious Quarry — Fury grants ferocity and additional increased critical strike chance. When struck while below the health threshold, gain fury.

Nature Magic

• Bountiful Hunter — You deal increased strike damage for each boon affecting you. Your pet deals increased strike damage for each boon affecting it.
• Fortifying Bond — When you gain a boon, it is shared with your pet.
• Nature's Vengeance — Spirits slam again when they finish shaking.

Soulbeast

• Furious Strength — You deal increased strike damage while you have fury.
• Oppressive Superiority — Deal increased damage to foes at a lower health percentage than you. Conditions you apply to foes at a lower health percentage than you last longer.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 18, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE only. Increased fury duration from 1.5 seconds to 2 seconds in PvE only. Increased power coefficient from 1.0 to 2.0 in PvE only.
June 27, 2023	Spirits have been reworked. A spirit will now grant an initial effect when summoned, slam the ground for a secondary effect, and then grant boons to nearby allies for a period of time.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) All ranger spirits are now immune to crowd control on a PvE map.
August 02, 2022	Fixed a bug that caused spirit boons to be granted in a circle around the ranger instead of the spirit.
June 28, 2022	Spirit skills now affect 5 allied targets. Spirits no longer apply effects when an ally in the radius strikes an enemy. Instead, each spirit applies a boon to allied targets in the radius at each 3-second interval. The Nature's Vengeance trait increases the base duration of these boons by 50% and causes spirits' activated skills to apply alacrity to allies in an area. Spirits and their applied boons are as follows: Storm Spirit: Fury
March 05, 2019	Spirits have been reworked as follows: When a spirit pulses its passive effect, it loses health equal to a percentage of its maximum health. (7.5% for nonelite spirits, 3% for elite spirits.) The effect radius of a spirit's active skill has been reduced from 1,000 to 600 for all spirits. Spirits now die automatically if the ranger moves away from the spirit beyond a range of 5,000. Spirits also die automatically if the ranger transitions between water travel and land travel. Fixed a bug that caused underwater spirits to use their unique skill when killed. Reduced the duration of vulnerability that this skill applies to foes from 10 seconds to 6 seconds.
May 08, 2018	Increased chance-on-hit from 75% to 100%.
November 07, 2017	Increased the number of targets affected by the Storm Spirit from 5 to 10 targets.
September 29, 2015	Changed the on-hit boon to now apply 3 stacks of vulnerability for 10 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: All ranger spirits have had their chance-on-hit effects increased to 75%. The recharge of all nonelite ranger spirits has been reduced to 20 seconds.
April 15, 2014	Updated the spirit's buff description to better reflect the buff's behavior.
November 26, 2013	Decreased the hit-point value of the underwater version of this spirit to be consistent with the land version. Summoning the spirit will now put its activated skill on a 1-second cooldown; this will fix an issue that caused the skill to begin recharging without firing when activated immediately.
September 03, 2013	Storm Spirit, Frost Spirit, Sun Spirit, Stone Spirit, and Spirit of Nature will now begin their recharge when the spirit dies instead of when the spirit is summoned. Recharge has been reduced from 60 seconds to 25 seconds.
August 20, 2013	Added a radius skill fact.
July 26, 2013	Sun, Stone, and Storm Spirit: Fixed a bug that caused downed players to be able to use the spirit effects without gaining the internal cooldown.
December 14, 2012	Updated Storm Spirit's skill fact to include the swiftness proc duration.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Storm Spirit has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Prior to the September 29, 2015 game update, nearby allies would gain swiftness instead of applying vulnerability.