Eruption

Shake the ground until it erupts and damages foes. — In-game description

Eruption

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

Attunement

Earth

Game link

API

5528

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10.25¼  6  

Eruption

Shake the ground until it erupts and damages foes.

 Damage: 605 (1.5)^?

 Damage: 504 (1.25)^?

₆ Bleeding (12s): 1,584 Damage

 Cripple (3s): -50% Movement Speed

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 300

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Earth

• Serrated Stones — Bleeding you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased damage to bleeding foes.
• 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.

Weaver

• Elemental Pursuit — Gain superspeed when inflicting inhibiting conditions on enemies.

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

• This skill has a delay of approximately 3 seconds, or ~4.25 including the cast time.
  • This means it is possible to activate this skill first, then use a skill that creates a combo field before the Eruption completes.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.5 to 1.25.
August 28, 2018	The damage of this skill has been increased by 20%.
June 20, 2017	This skill now cripples enemies for 3 seconds in addition to its other effects.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Blasting Staff: The effects of this trait have been added to all staff-skill area attacks by default.
April 15, 2014	Fixed a bug that allowed the spell effects to continue even if the skill was canceled early.
June 25, 2013	Reduced the cast time from 1.8 seconds to 1.2 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Eruption has been added to the game.

Trivia

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