Frozen Burst

Detonate a burst of ice that chills nearby foes. — In-game description

Frozen Burst

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand dagger

Attunement

Water

Damage type

Ice

Game link

API

5487

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0.25¼  

12

15

 

Frozen Burst

Detonate a burst of ice that chills nearby foes.

 Damage: 147 (0.4)^?

 Chilled (3s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

 Number of Targets: 5

 Field Duration: 2 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Combo Field: Ice

— In-game description

Related traits

Earth

• 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.

Water

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

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

Bug:

Tooltip damage calculation adds 40 to the weapon strength midpoint, reporting marginally higher damage.

• Since this skill always creates an Ice combo field it's impossible for the Blast finisher to use other players' combo fields.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 11, 2025	Increased the cooldown from 12 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP and WvW.
October 21, 2024	Fixed an issue that could cause the blast finisher to occur at the wrong location.
October 08, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 15 seconds to 12 seconds in PvP and WvW.
June 25, 2024	This skill now creates an ice field before performing its blast finisher.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 12 seconds to 15 seconds.
April 19, 2016	The recharge time of this skill has been reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.
April 15, 2014	This skill is now a blast finisher.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Frozen Burst has been added to the game.

Trivia

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