Lightning Surge

Charge a lightning surge that damages and blinds foes near your target when it discharges. — In-game description

Lightning Surge

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

Attunement

Air

Damage type

Lightning

Game link

API

5552

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Lightning Surge

Charge a lightning surge that damages and blinds foes near your target when it discharges.

 Damage: 726 (1.8)^?

 Damage: 456 (1.13)^?

 Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 180

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Air

• Aeromancer's Training — Gain ferocity, and gain additional ferocity while attuned to air. Air weapon skills get a reduced recharge time.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Damage multiplier increased from 1.44 to 1.8.
June 28, 2022	Increased power coefficient from 0.91 to 1.13 in PvP and WvW.
July 07, 2020	Reduced cooldown from 10 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP and WvW. Reduced power coefficient from 1.15 to 0.91 in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.44 to 1.15.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: The cast time has been reduced by 0.4 seconds.
October 18, 2016	The damage of this ability has been increased by 10%.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Blasting Staff: The effects of this trait have been added to all staff-skill area attacks by default.
September 30, 2014	Updated the description accuracy for the number of targets.
October 01, 2012	This skill no longer has infinite range and cannot fire at targets behind the player. It also is properly affected by line of sight and works with the Arcana trait Blasting Staff.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Lightning Surge has been added to the game.

Trivia

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