Lightning Rod (engineer spear skill)

This article is about the engineer skill. For other uses, see Lightning Rod (disambiguation).

Prime your lightning rod to deal damage to nearby enemies. Focused enemies receive extra punishment. Gain charges for your Electric Artillery skill. — In-game description

Lightning Rod

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Sequence

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Game link

API

73002

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12

15

18

 

Lightning Rod

Prime your lightning rod to deal damage to nearby enemies. Focused enemies receive extra punishment. Gain charges for your Electric Artillery skill.

 Focused Target Damage: 110 (0.3)^?

 Focused Target Damage: 64 (0.175)^?

 Damage: 62 (0.17)^?

 Damage: 46 (0.125)^?

₂ Focused Target Vulnerability (8s): +2% Incoming Damage, +2% Incoming Condition Damage

₂ Focused Target Vulnerability (6s): +2% Incoming Damage, +2% Incoming Condition Damage

 Unfocused Target Vulnerability (8s): +1% Incoming Damage, +1% Incoming Condition Damage

 Unfocused Target Vulnerability (6s): +1% Incoming Damage, +1% Incoming Condition Damage

 Charges per target struck. (14s)

 Maximum Stacks: 12

 Number of Impacts: 8

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration: 4 seconds

 Interval: 0.5½ seconds

 Radius: 180

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Shaped Charge — Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.

Firearms

• Modified Ammunition — Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.

Mechanics

• After the 4 second duration, Electric Artillery becomes available for 8 seconds.
• Only up to 8 Lightning Rod Charges can be gained against a single target due to the internal cooldown, meaning that at least 2 foes must be in range to get the maximum of 12 Charges.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 11, 2025	Increased the cooldown from 15 seconds to 18 seconds in PvP only.
August 20, 2024	Janthir Wilds release: Lightning Rod has been added to the game. Increased strike damage per hit on focused targets from 0.25 to 0.3. Increased the strike damage per hit on unfocused targets from 0.15 to 0.17. (Undocumented) Modified number of targets skill fact to refer to total number of targets as opposed to targets per impact.
June 27, 2024	Lightning Rod was available during the Spear Beta Event.