Ice Spike

Drop a giant ice spike on foes to make them vulnerable. — In-game description

Ice Spike

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

Attunement

Water

Damage type

Ice

Game link

API

5550

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0.75¾  6  

Ice Spike

Drop a giant ice spike on foes to make them vulnerable.

 Damage: 605 (1.5)^?

 Damage: 456 (1.13)^?

₅ Vulnerability (10s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage

₁₂ Vulnerability (6s): +12% Incoming Damage, +12% Incoming Condition Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 300

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Texture on the ground.

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

• Piercing Shards — Vulnerability you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased strike damage to vulnerable foes. Damage bonus is doubled while attuned to water.
• Aquamancer's Training — Increase healing to other allies. Water-weapon skills gain reduced recharge.

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

• If cancelled or interrupted, the animation will still play but will have no effect.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 28, 2022	Increased power coefficient from 0.91 to 1.13 in PvP and WvW.
July 07, 2020	Reduced cooldown from 8 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.5 to 0.91. Adjusted vulnerability duration from 5 stacks for 10 seconds to 12 stacks for 6 seconds. Increased cooldown from 6 seconds to 8 seconds.
December 11, 2018	This skill now strikes first before applying vulnerability.
June 20, 2017	The cooldown of this skill has been increased from 4 seconds to 6 seconds and now causes a blast finisher when the spike lands.
October 18, 2016	The casting time for this ability has been reduced from 1 second to 0.75 seconds. Aftercast of this ability has been reduced by 0.5 seconds.
July 26, 2016	Fixed a bug in which the animation became unsynchronized when this skill was used under the effects of quickness or slow.
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.
January 28, 2013	This skill now appropriately displays area-of-effect rings.
November 15, 2012	This skill's tooltip now states the correct amount of vulnerability when traited.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Ice Spike has been added to the game.

Trivia

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