Arcane Brilliance

Arcane. Blast the area, hitting foes with critical damage and healing yourself. Healing effectiveness is increased per target hit. If this skill finishes a combo, you heal an additional amount. — In-game description

Arcane Brilliance

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Slot

Healing

Type

Arcane

Damage type

Lightning

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

21656

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Arcane Brilliance

Arcane. Blast the area, hitting foes with critical damage and healing yourself. Healing effectiveness is increased per target hit. If this skill finishes a combo, you heal an additional amount.

 Damage: 133 (0.5)^?

 Healing: 4,840 (0.3)^?

 Combo Healing: 1,320

 Healing Increase Per Target: 10%

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 360

 Combo Finisher: Blast

— In-game description

Related traits

Earth

• Earth's Embrace — Gain resistance after using a healing skill.
• Diamond Skin — Remove conditions from yourself when you successfully combo a field with a leap finisher. Remove conditions from nearby allies when you successfully combo a field with a blast finisher.

Water

• Soothing Ice — Gain regeneration and frost aura when using a healing skill.

Arcane

• Arcane Lightning — Arcane skills grant increased ferocity and have additional effects.

Tempest

• Gale Song — Grant protection to nearby allies when you use a healing skill.

Catalyst

• Elemental Epitome — Gain an aura based on your current attunement when you combo. Gain Elemental Empowerment when you grant yourself an aura. Auras can be gained this way once per attunement per interval.
• Elemental Synergy — Gain a bonus effect when you finish a combo. Bonuses can trigger once per attunement per interval.

Notes

• The Healing Increase Per Target only affects the base healing, not the healing you receive when comboing.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 19, 2024	This skill now grants additional healing when used as a combo finisher.
June 27, 2023	Increased base healing from 3,560 to 4,840. Reduced bonus healing per strike from 20% to 10%. Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE and WvW.
June 20, 2017	The cooldown of this skill has been decreased from 25 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP only.
February 22, 2017	The radius of this skill has been increased from 240 to 360.
July 26, 2016	Fixed a bug that prevented triggering of the blast finisher if the character was in the air or underwater.
August 25, 2015	Fixed a bug that caused this skill's blast finisher to occur at your target's location instead of your own.
September 09, 2014	Fixed a bug in which this skill would not trigger the Arcane Energy trait.
July 01, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused the combo finisher pop-up to appear before the combo activated.
December 10, 2013	Arcane Brilliance has been added to the game.