Conduit Surge

Leap toward your target, unleashing intense energy on the area if you strike them. Your primary target becomes the focus of your other skills. If a focused target dies, this skill is refreshed. — In-game description

Conduit Surge

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

73122

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Conduit Surge

Leap toward your target, unleashing intense energy on the area if you strike them. Your primary target becomes the focus of your other skills. If a focused target dies, this skill is refreshed.

 Focused Target Damage: 440 (1.2)^?

 Unfocused Target Damage: 367 (1)^?

 Focused Target Burning (7s): 917 Damage

 Unfocused Target Burning (5s): 655 Damage

₂ Focused Target Burning (6s): 1,572 Damage

₂ Unfocused Target Burning (4s): 1,048 Damage

 Focused Target Burning (6s): 786 Damage

 Unfocused Target Burning (4s): 524 Damage

 Focused Duration (10s): Spear skills have bonus effect against Focused targets.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 180

 Combo Finisher: Leap

 Range: 450

— In-game description

Related traits

Firearms

• Modified Ammunition — Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.
• Incendiary Powder — Burning you inflict lasts longer, and your critical hits inflict burning.

Alchemy

• Chain Reactivity — Gain barrier when you successfully finish a combo field with a leap or a blast. Every third successful finish grants you might and a larger barrier that is shared with allies.

Scrapper

• Kinetic Accelerators — Grant boons to nearby allies when you successfully combo a field with a blast, leap, or whirl finisher. Your function gyro is now a blast finisher. Whirl finishers can only trigger this trait once per interval.

Notes

Focused indicator above the enemy's head.

• Conduit Surge only applies a visual indicator for the focused effect. No icon will appear on the enemy's bar.
• When using this skill, there are 2 behaviors depends on the distance between you and the targeted enemy.
  • Within 450 units: dashes directly to the targeted enemy and hits them.
  • More than 450 units or not targeting any enemy: dashes a fixed distance of 450 units and will hit any enemy within that dash path.

Anomaly:

This skill will sometimes not apply the focused indicator to enemies within the skill range, including enemies moved too fast or enemies teleported when being hit.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Reduced the burning stacks from 2 to 1, increased the focused burning duration from 6 seconds to 7 seconds, and increased the unfocused burning duration from 4 seconds to 5 seconds in PvE only.
January 13, 2026	Reduced the burning stacks from 2 to 1 in PvP only.
April 15, 2025	Reduced the burning stacks from 3 to 2 in PvE only.
February 11, 2025	This skill has been condensed into a single dash. Reduced the cooldown from 6 seconds to 5 seconds in PvE only. (Undocumented) Skill id updated, listed range updated.
August 20, 2024	Janthir Wilds release: Conduit Surge has been added to the game. Added visual effects to help engineers identify their focused targets. Updated this skill so that Focused can only affect one target at a time. Successfully applying Focused now applies a Focusing effect to the engineer to help indicate time left on the focused target. Increased the burning stacks from 2 to 3 in PvE and from 1 to 2 in PvP and WvW. Reduced the focused burning duration from 8 seconds to 6 seconds and the unfocused burning duration from 6 seconds to 4 seconds in PvE only. Reduced the cooldown from 8 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP and WvW.
June 27, 2024	Conduit Surge was available during the Spear Beta Event.