Ground Pound

Smash your hammer into the ground to bleed and immobilize your enemies. — In-game description

Ground Pound

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Specialization

Catalyst

Weapon

Hammer

Attunement

Earth

Game link

API

62778

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Ground Pound

Smash your hammer into the ground to bleed and immobilize your enemies.

 Damage: 928 (2.3)^?

 Damage: 367 (0.91)^?

 Immobilize (3s): Unable to move.

₅ Bleeding (6s): 660 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Combo Finisher: Blast

— In-game description

Related traits

Earth

• Serrated Stones — Bleeding you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased damage to bleeding foes.
• Strength of Stone — Gain condition damage based on your toughness. Inflict bleeding when you immobilize a foe. Bleeding can only occur on the same target once per interval.
• 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.

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.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	Increased the power coefficient from 2.0 to 2.3 in PvE only.
January 30, 2024	Reduced the bleeding duration from 10 seconds to 6 seconds in PvE only.
November 28, 2023	Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE only. Increased the power coefficient from 1.3 to 2.0 in PvE only.
March 29, 2022	Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Ground Pound has been added to the game.
November 30, 2021	Ground Pound was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 4.
September 21, 2021	Ground Pound was available during the End of Dragons Beta Event 2.