Tidal Surge

Send out a tidal wave that regenerates and heal[sic] allies, then knocks enemies back. — In-game description

Tidal Surge

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Specialization

Tempest

Weapon

Warhorn

Attunement

Water

Game link

API

30864

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0.25¼  30  

Tidal Surge

Send out a tidal wave that regenerates and heal[sic] allies, then knocks enemies back.

 Damage: 330 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

 Healing: 1,302 (0.5)^?

 Regen (8s): 1,040 Heal

 Knockback: 240

 Healing Radius: 360

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Defiance Break: 150

 Range: 360

— In-game description

Related traits

Air

• Stormsoul — Deal increased strike damage to disabled or defiant foes. Outgoing stun duration increased. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Lightning Rod — Cast Lightning Rod when you disable a foe. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Earth

• Diamond Skin — Remove conditions from yourself when you successfully combo a field with a leap finisher. Remove conditions from nearby allies when you successfully combo a field with a blast finisher.

Water

• Aquamancer's Training — Increase healing to other allies. Water-weapon skills gain reduced recharge.
• Cleansing Water — Cleanse conditions from allies you grant regeneration to.

Arcane

• Elemental Lockdown — When you disable a foe, gain a boon based upon your current attunement.

Notes

• The heal and regeneration are applied in a radius around the user at the start of the skill, affecting the user and 4 other allies. This can affect allies behind the user.
• The damage and knockback affect 5 enemies in front of the wave when it crashes down, approximately 3 seconds after the skill is cast.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 11, 2025	This skill is now a blast finisher.
November 28, 2023	Reduced the cooldown from 35 seconds to 30 seconds.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.01.
October 02, 2018	The time between casting this skill and knocking back targets has been reduced by about 0.5 seconds.
September 23, 2017	Fixed a bug in which effects played too quickly when the player was affected by quickness.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Tidal Surge has been added to the game.