Etching: Jökulhlaup

Etch a spell into the ground that invokes a glacial flood. Using a number of other skills within this etching completes the spell, unlocking its full potential. — In-game description

Etching: Jökulhlaup

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Attunement

Water

Sequence

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Game link

API

72982

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0.25¼  25  

Etching: Jökulhlaup

Etch a spell into the ground that invokes a glacial flood. Using a number of other skills within this etching completes the spell, unlocking its full potential.

 Healing: 532

 Number of Casts: 3

 Duration: 7 seconds

 Radius: 360

 Combo Field: Water

— In-game description

Mechanics

• Requires using 3 skills within its radius to upgrade its follow-up skill from its Lesser version.
• Allies are not affected by the pulsing benefit within the radius; only the elementalist is affected by it.
  • Allies, however, can use the associated combo field.

Related traits

Water

• Aquamancer's Training — Increase healing to other allies. Water-weapon skills gain reduced recharge.

Trivia

• As with all the etchings, Etching: Jökulhlaup is named for a real life phenomenon. Jökulhlaups are any large and abrupt release of water from subglacial or proglacial lakes or reservoir, though the term originally described glacial outburst floods that occurred in Iceland.
• This Etching has New Krytan text in its symbol that contains the following:
  • Inner Ring: Aren't you tired? Close your eyes and feel them wash over you.
  • Middle Ring: It's not silent, listen closely shape shifters it can't hurt can it
  • Outer Ring: Swirling stars floating in the water so delicate yet strong
  • Notably, the outer ring seems to reference a quotation from Soo-Won's Tail, while the middle ring contains part of a quotation from Jormag's Flight.

Bug:

If you use   Elemental Celerity and cast a second Etching field shortly after using the first one, both fields will disappear simultanioulsy when the first one disappears, leaving you with a much shorter second field. Depending on the timing, sometimes, the field just disappears visually, but is still there. This is also the case for the other three fields

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 11, 2025	Fixed an issue that prevented etchings from being able to be charged after a certain duration. Fixed an issue that prevented etchings from being charged when multiple etchings existed at once.
August 20, 2024	Janthir Wilds release: Etching: Jökulhlaup has been added to the game. Etching skills will now put their corresponding lesser skill on a short cooldown to prevent unintentional usage. Increased all etching durations from 5 seconds to 7 seconds. The visual effects of Jökulhlaup, Derecho, and Haboob will no longer be replaced by legendary effects.
June 27, 2024	Etching: Jökulhlaup was available during the Spear Beta Event.