Electric Artillery

Hurl your charged rod at a foe, immobilizing them. Foes take increased burning duration and vulnerability stacks based on your lightning rod's charge. — In-game description

Electric Artillery

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Sequence

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Game link

API

73143

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Electric Artillery

Hurl your charged rod at a foe, immobilizing them. Foes take increased burning duration and vulnerability stacks based on your lightning rod's charge.

 Focused Target Damage: 550 (1.5)^?

 Damage: 367 (1.0)^?

₂ Focused Burning Duration Increase per Charge (0.5½s): 131 Damage

₂ Unfocused Burning Duration Increase per Charge (0.25¼s): 66 Damage

 Charges Required per Vulnerability on Focused Targets (8s): +1% Incoming Damage, +1% Incoming Condition Damage

₂ Charges Required per Vulnerability on Unfocused Targets (8s): +2% Incoming Damage, +2% Incoming Condition Damage

₂ Minimum Burning Duration (3s): 786 Damage

₂ Minimum Burning Duration (6s): 1,572 Damage

 Immobilize (2s): Unable to move.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 180

 Explosion

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Short Fuse — Gain fury when you hit a foe with an Explosion.
• Steel-Packed Powder — Explosions cause vulnerability.
• Explosive Temper — Explosions grant stacking ferocity when they hit.
• Shaped Charge — Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.
• Shrapnel — Explosions have a chance to cripple and cause bleeding on hit.
• Big Boomer — Deal increased strike damage to foes with a lower health percentage than you. Hitting with an Explosion heals you over a few seconds.

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.

Mechanist

• Mech Fighter — New combat subroutines enable your mech to use Rocket Punch when you activate Skill 3 on your equipped weapon. Your mech gains a greater percentage of your own toughness and vitality stats.

Related effects

•  Lightning Rod Charges
•  Electric Artillery

Notes

• Though the skill can be used even when no enemy is targeted, it will only let loose a projectile when an enemy is selected.

Bug:

The  Vulnerability of this skill does not scale with  Condition Duration.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Reduced the minimum burning duration from 4 seconds to 3 seconds, reduced the focused burning duration scaling from 1 second to 0.5 seconds, and reduced the unfocused burning duration scaling from 0.5 seconds to 0.25 seconds in PvE only.
August 20, 2024	Janthir Wilds release: Electric Artillery has been added to the game. Reduced the casting time by 0.24 seconds. Increased the range from 600 to 900. This skill no longer requires you to face your target. Increased the burning duration from 4 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP and WvW.
June 27, 2024	Electric Artillery was available during the Spear Beta Event.