Riptide

Use the element of water to propel yourself backward and regenerate, leaving a healing area at your location. — In-game description

Riptide

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Specialization

Weaver

Weapon

Main hand sword

Attunement

Water

Movement

Retreat

Game link

API

44405

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Riptide

Use the element of water to propel yourself backward and regenerate, leaving a healing area at your location.

 Damage (2x): 242 (0.66)^?

 Damage (2x): 74 (0.2)^?

 Healing: 216 (0.18)^?

 Healing: 120 (0.05)^?

 Regen (5s): 650 Heal

 Number of Enemy Targets: 3

 Number of Allied Targets: 5

 Pulses: 5

 Duration: 4 seconds

 Evade: 10.75¾ seconds

 Combo Field: Water

— In-game description

Mechanics

•  Regeneration is granted at the end of the evade-animation.
• The water field is created the beginning of the cast and moves backwards with the player during the evasion. Healing pulses occur on the field.
• Moves the player approximately 390 units backwards.
• Evasion frame actually lasts 1.1 seconds, which is the exact cast time.

Related traits

Water

• Flow like Water — Deal increased strike damage, which is further increased while your health is above the threshold. Blocking or evading an attack heals you.
• Aquamancer's Training — Increase healing to other allies. Water-weapon skills gain reduced recharge.
• Cleansing Water — Cleanse conditions from allies you grant regeneration to.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
January 13, 2026	Reduced the cooldown from 18 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP and WvW. (Undocumented) Unintended healing scaling matches the tool-tip in PvP.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.33 to 0.1. Reduced pulse heal coefficient from 0.1 to 0.05. Reduced pulse base heal from 165 to 120. Increased cooldown from 12 seconds to 18 seconds.
December 11, 2018	Fixed a bug that allowed this skill to go on full cooldown when interrupted before any benefit was gained.
August 28, 2018	In PvP only, healing per level has been reduced by 24%, and healing power contribution has been reduced by 44%.
February 06, 2018	The healing-per-level aspect of this skill has been reduced by about 60%. Healing-power contribution has been reduced by 45%.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Riptide has been added to the game.