Lightning Whip

Lash your foe with lightning. — In-game description

Lightning Whip

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand dagger

Attunement

Air

Game link

API

5489

“

0.75¾  

Lightning Whip

Lash your foe with lightning.

 Damage (2x): 462 (1.26)^?

 Damage (2x): 308 (0.84)^?

 Number of Targets: 3

 Range: 240

— In-game description

Notes

• This skill cleaves.
• Attack speed is one pair of swings per 0.95 seconds
• If the Signet of Restoration is active, the healing is triggered on the second hit.
• Damage type is physical, despite its appearance.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.63 to 0.42.
April 23, 2019	The range of this skill has been reduced from 300 to 240.
January 27, 2015	The attack point of this skill has been delayed around .1 seconds on the first and second attacks. The aftercast has been reduced by 0.2 seconds. To compensate for the increased attack-rate potential, the damage of this ability has been reduced by 10%. When used with Signet of Restoration, this ability will only heal if the second attack executes.
September 09, 2014	Updated the damage skill fact to display that the skill hits twice.
May 28, 2013	Now strikes targets in a similar angle to other melee ranged skills.
October 01, 2012	This profession skill now hit 3 targets instead of 1
August 28, 2012	Game release: Lightning Whip has been added to the game.