Dust Charge

Move swiftly in a direction, knocking back enemies you collide with. — In-game description

Dust Charge

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Parent skill

  Tornado

Slot

Transform

Game link

API

35304

“

10.25¼  

10

7

 

Dust Charge

Move swiftly in a direction, knocking back enemies you collide with.

 Damage: 98 (0.33)^?

 Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

 Launch: 400

 Number of Impacts: 10

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 180

 Defiance Break: 232[sic]

 Range: 900

— 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.
• 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

Bug:

The Defiance Break displays 232 instead of 332.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 18, 2025	Fixed an issue that allowed this skill to strike more times than intended when used by multiple players.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.33 to 0.01.
March 27, 2018	Reduced the cooldown from 10 seconds to 7 seconds in PvP and WvW.
July 26, 2016	Dust Charge has been added to the game.