Shock Wave

Create a shock wave that bleeds and immobilizes your target. — In-game description

Shock Wave

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

Attunement

Earth

Game link

API

5686

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0.75¾  25  

Shock Wave

Create a shock wave that bleeds and immobilizes your target.

 Damage: 202 (0.5)^?

 Damage: 1,009 (2.5)^?

 Bleeding (20s): 440 Damage

 Immobilize (2s): Unable to move.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Earth

• Serrated Stones — Bleeding you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased damage to bleeding foes.
• Strength of Stone — Gain condition damage based on your toughness. Inflict bleeding when you immobilize a foe. Bleeding can only occur on the same target once per interval.
• Geomancer's Training — Strike damage from nearby foes is reduced. Earth weapon skills gain reduced recharge.

Weaver

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

Catalyst

• Vicious Empowerment — Gain Elemental Empowerment and might when you disable or immobilize a foe.
• Elemental Epitome — Gain an aura based on your current attunement when you combo. Gain Elemental Empowerment when you grant yourself an aura. Auras can be gained this way once per attunement per interval.
• Elemental Synergy — Gain a bonus effect when you finish a combo. Bonuses can trigger once per attunement per interval.

Notes

• This is a piercing attack.
• The projectile(s) from this skill keeps to the ground, meaning that it can be aimed only horizontally; its path vertically is always along the ground. It also means that targets cannot be hit if there is a gap or large elevation in the ground between the target and the caster (eg. harpy jumping puzzle in Uncategorized Fractal).

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Damage multiplier increased from 0.5 to 2.5.
July 07, 2020	Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
October 15, 2013	Increased the projectile velocity by 12.5%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Shock Wave has been added to the game.

Trivia

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