Shatterstone

Cast a shatterstone that will explode at the target area. — In-game description

Shatterstone

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Scepter

Attunement

Water

Damage type

Ice

Game link

API

5538

“

0.5½  

3

6

 

Shatterstone

Cast a shatterstone that will explode at the target area.

 Damage (2x): 586 (1.6)^?

 Damage (2x): 440 (1.2)^?

 Chilled (2s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

 Chilled (10.5½s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 180

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Water

• Aquamancer's Training — Increase healing to other allies. Water-weapon skills gain reduced recharge.

Weaver

• Elemental Pursuit — Gain superspeed when inflicting inhibiting conditions on enemies.

Notes

Anomaly:

The audio cue for this skill is inconsistent with the explosion. Originally was synced up until the skill got sped up on January 25, 2016.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 11, 2025	Reduced the power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.8 in PvE only.
July 18, 2023	Increased cooldown from 3 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP and WvW.
November 29, 2022	This skill now inflicts chill instead of vulnerability and strikes enemies on the initial cast in addition to the explosion. Reduced explosion time from 1 second to 0.67 seconds. Reduced power coefficient from 1.66 to 1.0 in PvE, and from 1.5 to 0.6 in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.66 to 1.5. Adjusted vulnerability from 5 stacks for 15 seconds to 10 stacks for 6 seconds.
May 08, 2018	The damage of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the higher 66% damage increase in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Increased damage by 66% in PvP and WvW.
April 19, 2016	The damage of this skill has been increased by 22%.
January 26, 2016	Reduced the time for this skill to explode from 2 seconds to 1 second. Increased the recharge from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.
September 29, 2015	Increased the vulnerability from 4 stacks for 15 seconds to 5 stacks for 15 seconds. Increased damage by 10%.
January 27, 2015	The casting time of this skill has been reduced from 1 second to 0.5 seconds.
July 09, 2013	This ability will no longer cancel when autoattack is engaged.
June 25, 2013	Reduced the aftercast by .75 seconds. This skill now shows its cast time and cast bar correctly.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Shatterstone has been added to the game.

Trivia

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