Earthquake

Trigger a quake at your location, knocking down foes and dealing massive damage. — In-game description

Earthquake

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Off hand dagger

Attunement

Earth

Game link

API

5690

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0.75¾  

16

25

 

Earthquake

Trigger a quake at your location, knocking down foes and dealing massive damage.

 Damage: 1,100 (3.0)^?

 Damage: 4 (0.01)^?

 Knockdown: 2 seconds

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Defiance Break: 200

— 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.

Earth

• Geomancer's Training — Strike damage from nearby foes is reduced. Earth weapon skills gain reduced recharge.
• 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.

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.
• 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 combo finisher's effects and damage are applied at 680 ms into the cast and the cast takes 1000 ms in total.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Recharge reduced from 30 seconds to 16 seconds. Damage multiplier increased from 1 to 3.
March 29, 2022	Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP and WvW.
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 1.0 to 0.01.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: This skill will no longer queue; if able, it will interrupt other skills in order to cast.
February 22, 2017	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 40 seconds to 30 seconds. Fixed a bug that caused the blast finisher to occur around the elementalist’s selected target rather than around their current position.
October 18, 2016	The recharge time of this ability has been reduced from 45 seconds to 40 seconds.
June 03, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused the skill combo notification to appear when this skill was activated rather than when the attack hit.
October 15, 2013	Added a range indicator.
October 22, 2012	The responsiveness of skills used after this skill has been improved.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Earthquake has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.