Guild Wars 2

• Your attacks confuse foes. If you successfully evade or block an attack while under the effects of chaos armor, you gain health and fury. (Cannot gain health and fury more than once within the interval; cannot inflict confusion more than once within the interval per target)
• Healing: 440 (0.2)
• Fury: 3 s
• Interval: 1 s
• Confusion (1): 3 s
• Interval: 1 s
• Range: 600
  • This effect now counts as an aura.

• Your attacks deal more damage.
• Damage bonus: +15%
  • This aura has no range limit or cooldown on its effect; only a duration limiter like magnetic aura.

• Cure yourself of burning and chilled when you gain this aura. Your attacks chill foes; gain bonus toughness while this aura is in effect. (Cannot inflict chill more than once within the interval per target)
• Bonus toughness: +200
• Chilled: 1½ s
• Interval: 1 s
• Range: 600

• Briefly stun adjacent foes when you gain this aura. Your attacks inflict vulnerability. (Cannot inflict vulnerability more than once within the interval per target)
• Number of targets: 3
• Initial stun: ½ s
• Stun radius: 180
• Vulnerability (2): 5 s
• Interval: 1 s
• Range: 600

• No changes.

• Cure a condition when you gain this aura. Your attacks remove boons from foes if they have a total number of active boons that exceeds the threshold. (Cannot remove boons more than once within the interval per target) (You cannot gain this aura more than once every 10 seconds)
• Initial conditions cured: 1
• Boon number threshold: 3
• Boons removed per attack: 1
• Interval: 3 s
• Range: 600

• Baseline elemental attunement recharges reduced from 13 s to 10 s.
• Elementalists have initiative (10 points base); initiative regenerates at a base rate of 1 point every 2 seconds.

• Conjured weapon 4 and 5 skills moved to traits; conjured weapons now function like Engineer kits.

[Flamestrike] (1)
Cast-time: 1 s

• Cast out a bolt of fire; deals bonus damage as fire field combo finisher.
• Damage: (0.4)
• Damage as a fire field combo finisher: (0.85)
• Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
• Range: 900
  • Elementalist [Fireball] projectile pathing

[Dragon’s Tooth] (2)

• Recharge reduced from 6 s to 4 s.

[Phoenix] (3a)
Cast-time: ½; Initiative: 3; Recharge: 4 s

• Leap at your foe to deliver an explosive strike. If you strike a target, you also damage nearby foes with the explosion.
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: 406 (1.1)
• Combo Finisher: Leap
• Range: 600
  • Guardian [Leap of Faith]

[Rebirth] (3b)
Cast-time: 0; Initiative: 3

• Vanish in a cloud of ash and reappear where you first activated Phoenix.
  • This chain skill is only available for 3 seconds and can be activated while in midair.

[Ice Spear] (1a)
Cast-time: ½ s

• Cast out a spear of ice at your foe.
• Damage: (0.3)
• Range: 600

[Ice Lance] (1b)
Cast-time: ½ s

• Cast out another spear of ice at your foe.
• Damage: (0.3)
• Range: 600

[Water Trident] (1c)
Cast-time:

[Shatterstone] (2)
Cast-time: ¾ s; Initiative: 2

• Conjure a line of ice shards in front of you that explode after a delay.
• Delay: 1 s
• Number of impacts: 5
• Number of targets: 3
• Impact damage: (0.4)
• Impact vulnerability (3): 10 s
• Impact radius: 120
• Range: 600
  • Koda’s Hammer Ice Shock Wave; each impact first forms a current Elementalist Shatterstone object which then explodes after the listed delay.

Water Trident (3a)
Cast-time: ½ s; Recharge: 12 s

• Cast a water trident that heals allies. This attack knocks back nearby foes if it combos with a water field.
• Number of targets: 3
• Number of allies: 5
• Damage: 95 (0.2)
• Healing: 1448 (1.0)
• Water field combo knock-back: 400
• Radius: 180
• Combo Finisher: Blast
• Range: 900

[Lightning Bolt] (1)
Cast-time: ½ s

• Cast a lightning bolt at your foe.
• Damage: (0.4)
• Range: 900
  • Elementalist [Chain Lightning] projectile pathing; no bounces

[Arc Lightning] (2a)
Cast-time: 1 s; Initiative: 1; Recharge: 8 s

• Cast an arc of lightning which shocks foes in a line in front of you.
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (0.9)
• Width: 150
• Distance: 600
  • This skill is a chain of functionally identical skills; damage and effects increase as the player casts more skills within the chain.
  • Each chain skill is available to the player for up to 20 seconds before the chain resets and enters into its normal cool-down. If the player uses every skill, then the chain will enter into cool-down as normal.

[Arc Lightning] (2b)
Cast-time: 1 s; Initiative: 1

• Cast another arc of lightning which shocks foes in a line in front of you.
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (0.7)
• Width: 150
• Distance: 600

[Arc Lightning] (2c)
Cast-time: 1 s; Initiative: 1

• Cast a powerful arc of lightning which shocks foes and inflicts vulnerability in a line in front of you.
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (1.4)
• Vulnerability (5): 10 s
• Width: 150
• Distance: 600

[Blinding Flash] (3)

• Blind duration reduced from 6 s to 2 s.
• This skill now uses ground-targeting (150 radius) and affects up to 5 foes.
• Now has an initiative cost of 2.

[Stone Shards] (1)

• Damage coefficient per strike increased from (0.15) to (0.30).
• Projectiles no longer inflict bleeding.
• Projectiles no longer have a projectile finisher chance.

[Rock Barrier] (2a)

• Recharge reduced from 15 s to 4 s.
• Now has an initiative cost of 2.

[Hurl] (2b)

• Now has a cast-time of ½ s.
• Each rock projectile now inflicts bleeding (1 stack; 6 s).

[Dust Devil (3)

• Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 12 s
• Spin and blind nearby foes with a dust cloud; destroy incoming projectiles for a brief period of time.
• Number of targets: 5
• Projectile destruction: 1½ s
• Damage: (0.5)
• Blind: 3 s
• Combo Finisher: Whirl
• Radius: 240
  • Projectile destruction hitbox and visual effect equivalent to that of Ranger [Swirling Strike].

[Dragon’s Claw] (1)

• Cast-time increased from ½ s to ¾ s.

[Drake’s Breath] (2)
Cast-time: 2¼ s; Recharge: 3 s

• Spray a cone of fire at foes. This skill’s final strike inflicts burning.
• Number of targets: 3
• Strikes (4): every ½ s
• Damage per normal strike: (0.25)
• Final strike damage: (1.3)
• Final strike burning: 5 s
• Range: 400

[Burning Speed] (3)

• Recharge reduced from 15 s to 12 s.
• Evasion duration reduced from ¾ s to ¼ s.
• Blast radius reduced from 240 to 180.
• Now has an initiative cost of 2.

[Vapor Blade] (1a)
Cast-time: ½ s

• Cast out a vapor blade which returns to you.
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (0.3)
• Pierces
• Range: 600

[Vapor Scythe] (1b)
Cast-time: ½ s

• Cast out a vapor blade which returns to you.
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (0.3)
• Pierces
• Range: 600

[Vapor Barrage] (1c)
Cast-time: 1 s

• Cast out three vapor blades which inflict vulnerability and deal bonus damage to foes with boons.
• Number of targets per blade: 5
• Damage per blade: (0.55)
• Vulnerability (3) per blade: 8 s
• Bonus damage per boon: 5%
• Range: 900
  • These vapor blades are produced in the same way that Poobadoo attacks with his multiple vapor blades.

[Cone of Cold] (2)
Cast-time: 2¼ s; Initiative: 2; Recharge: 3 s

• Spray an ice blast at foes; this skill’s strikes have increased critical hit chance against foes at or above the vulnerability threshold. This skill’s final strike also heals allies.
• Number of targets: 3
• Number of allies: 5
• Strikes (4): every ½ s
• Damage per normal strike: (0.25)
• Final strike damage: (1.3)
• Final strike healing: 740 (0.3)
• Vulnerability stack threshold: 10
• Threshold critical hit chance: 100%
• Range: 400

[Frozen Burst] (3)
Cast-time: ½ s; Recharge: 15 s

• Detonate a burst of ice that chills nearby foes. If you successfully combo this skill with a specified field, this skill’s finisher grants bonus effects.
• Number of targets: 5
• Number of allies: 5
• Chilled: 3 s
• Combo Finisher: Blast
• Fire field healing: 1448 (1.0)
• Ice field immobilize: 2 s
• Radius: 210

[Lightning Whip] (1)
Cast-time increased from ¾ s to 1 s.

Lightning Touch (2)
Cast-time: ½ s; Initiative: 1; Recharge: 5 s

• Inflict weakness with a shocking touch; inflict heavy vulnerability to foes that are already weakened.
• Number of targets: 3
• Weakness: 2½ s
• Vulnerability (12) vs weakened foes: 10 s
• Range: 300

Shocking Aura (3)
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 25 s

• Briefly stun adjacent foes with electrical energy and gain a shocking aura. While under the effects of this aura, your attacks inflict vulnerability.
• Number of targets: 5
• Initial stun: ½ s
• Stun radius: 180
• Shocking Aura (5): 4 s
• Vulnerability (2) per attack: 5 s
  • The stun only occurs once: immediately upon skill activation.
  • Inflicting vulnerability with an attack has a 1 second internal cool-down per unique target. Each time this effect triggers, it consumes 1 stack of [Shocking Aura].

[Stone Dagger] (1a)
Cast-time: ½ s

• Strike your foe with a stone dagger.
• Number of targets: 2
• Damage: (0.4)
• Range: 130

[Stone Striker] (1b)
Cast-time: ½ s

• Strike your foe again with a stone dagger.
• Number of targets: 2
• Damage: (0.4)
• Range: 130

[Glowstone] (1c)
Cast-time: 1 s

• Smash foes in front of you with a heavy blow. Gain initiative for every weakened foe that you strike.
• Damage: (1.2)
• Initiative per weakened foe struck: 1
• Number of targets: 3
• Range: 300

[Ring of Earth] (2)
Cast-time: 1 s; Initiative: 2; Recharge: 4 s

• Bleed nearby foes with a ring of rocky spikes; this ring destroys incoming projectiles at its location.
• Number of targets: 5
• Projectile destruction: 1½ s
• Damage: (1.2)
• Bleeding (2): 6 s
• Radius: 240

[Magnet Strip] (3)
Cast-time: ½ s; Initiative: 3; Recharge: 10 s

• Conjure a pulsing strip of magnetized earth along a line in front of you; this strip cripples foes and grants super speed to allies.
• Number of targets: 5
• Number of allies: 5
• Pulses (4): every 1 s
• Crippled: 1½ s
• Super speed: 1 s
• Duration: 3 s
• Width: 200
• Distance: 600
  • This strip pulses immediately upon creation and then at the end of every second afterward.

[Ring of Fire] (4)
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 12 s

• Damage adjacent foes with a ring of fire; this ring burns foes that pass through it.
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (1.2)
• Burning: 4 s
• Duration: 5 s
• Radius: 210
• Combo Field: Fire

Fire Grab (5)

• Cast-time increased from ¾ s to 1¼ s.
• Recharge reduced from kitten to 20 s.
• Now has an initiative cost of 6.

Frost Aura (4)
Cast-time: ½ s; Initiative: 2; Recharge: 30 s

• Gain frost aura; you have increased toughness and your attacks chill foes.
• Frost aura (3): 4 s
• Chilled per strike: 1½ s
• Toughness per stack: +100
  • Each stack of frost aura grants the user +100 toughness and passively applies chilled (1½ s) if the player strikes a foe with an attack.

Cleansing Wave (5)

• Recharge reduced from 40 s to 30 s.
• Now has an initiative cost of 3.

[Ride the Lightning] (4)
Cast-time: 0; Initiative: 3; Recharge: 20 s

• Form. Ride the lightning at rapid speed.
• Ride the Lightning: 2 s
  • This skill now grants the player an active skill in the 1 slot while the form is active.

[Shock] (weapon slot 1 while in Ride the Lightning form)
Cast-time: 0

• Exit your form and strike adjacent foes with an electrical burst.
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (1.2)
• Radius: 180

[Updraft] (5)
Cast-time: 0; Initiative: 3; Recharge: 20 s

• Unleash a gust of wind that knocks back nearby foes and grants you super speed.
• Number of targets: 5
• Knock back: 200
• Radius: 180
• Evade: ½ s
• Super speed: 3 s
• Retreat distance: 300
  • Roll animation now executes faster.

[Earthquake] (4)

• Now also inflicts weakness for 3 seconds.
• Recharge reduced from kitten to 20 s.
• Damage coefficient reduced from (1.0) to (0.4).
• Knock-down duration reduced from 2 s to ½ s.
• Now has an initiative cost of 3.

Churning Earth (5)

• Recharge reduced from 30 s to 20 s.
• Total cast-time reduced from 3¼ s to 2¼ s; crippling pulses reduced from 4 to 3.
• The crippling pulses now also remove super speed.
• Now has an initiative cost of 4.

[Inferno] (4)
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 12 s

• Create a wall of fire that destroys incoming projectles in front of you; this wall follows you. At the end of its duration, your wall explodes and damages foes in a cone in front of you.
• Wall duration: 3 s
• Combo Field: Fire
• Number of foes: 5
• Explosion damage within 0-200 range: 625 (1.6)
• Explosion damage within 200-300 range: 574 (1.4)
• Explosion damage within 300-400 range: 469 (1.2)
• Explosion damage within 400-500 range: 391 (1.0)
• Range: 500
  • Revenant Field of the Mists “follow” mechanic; Engineer [Blunderbuss] cone.

[Fire Aura] (5)
Cast-time: 0; Initiative: 4; Recharge: 25 s

• Gain Fire Aura; your attacks have an explosive effect.
• Fire Aura (3): 4 s
• Number of explosion targets: 5
• Explosion damage on attack: (0.8)
• Explosion radius: 180
  • Explosion damage cannot critically hit.
  • Explosion damage trigger has a global cool-down of 1 s; this effect triggers around a struck target (max range of this trigger: 600 units).
  • Explosion visual effect equivalent to current Sigil of Fire proc.

Freezing Gust (4)
Cast-time: ¾ s; Initiative: 2; Recharge: 20 s

• Unleash a gust that chills and immobilizes foes in a line.
• Number of strikes: 6
• Number of targets: 3
• Chilled: 2 s
• Immobilized: 1 s
• Range: 600
  • Projectile hit-box, travel speed and behavior are equivalent to Elementalist [Fiery Whirl] shortened to 600 range.
  • This attack will strike twice if it passes normally through a standard player hit-box; the tool tip describes the effect of a single hit.

Comet (5)

• Cast-time reduced from ¾ s to ¼ s.
• Recharge reduced from 25 s to 20 s.
• Daze reduced from 2 s to 1 s.
• Radius reduced from 180 to 150.
• This skill now uses ground-targeting.
• Now has an initiative cost of 3.

Swirling Winds (4)

• Duration reduced from 6 s to 4 s.
• Recharge reduced from 30 s to 25 s.
• Now has an initiative cost of 2.

Gale (5)

• Cast-time: 1 s; Initiative: 3; Recharge: 40 s
• Charge forward and knock down adjacent foes upon impact.
• Number of targets: 5
• Knock down: ¾ s
• Knock down radius: 180
• Combo Finisher: Leap
• Range: 600
  • Warrior [Bull’s Charge].

Magnetic Wave (4)
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 20 s

• Reflect projectiles with a magnetic surge. This wave dazes weakened foes.
• Reflection duration: 3 s
• Daze vs weakened foes: ½ s
• Radius: 240
• Combo Finisher: Blast
  • This skill no longer deals damage.

Obsidian Flesh (5)
Cast-time: 3½ s; Initiative: 4; Recharge: 30 s

• Gain a toughness bonus and lose conditions with each pulse; whenever you lose a condition in this way, you damage and bleed nearby foes.
• Pulses (4): every ¾ s
• Pulse conditions removed: 1
• Obsidian Flesh (10 s): +250 toughness
• Number of targets: 5
• Condition removal damage: (0.55)
• Condition removal bleeding (2): 8 s
• Damage radius: 240

Fireball (1)

• Explosion radius reduced from 180 to 150.

Lava Font (2)

• Recharge reduced from 6 s to 4 s.
• Radius reduced from 180 to 150.

Flame Burst (3)

• Recharge reduced from 10 s to 8.
• This skill now uses ground-targeting (1200 range; 180 radius)
• Burning duration reduced from 6 s to 5 s.
• No longer deals damage.

Burning Retreat (4)

• Evasion duration reduced from 1 s to ½ s.
• Recharge reduced from 20 s to 15 s.
• Now has an initiative cost of 3.

Meteor Shower (5)

• Recharge reduced from 30 s to 25 s.
• Total AoE radius reduced from 360 to 300.
• Meteor impact radius increased from 180 to 150.
• Now has an initiative cost of 6.

Frozen Ground (4)

• Recharge reduced from 40 s to 35 s.
• Radius reduced from 300 to 240.
• Now has an initiative cost of 3.

Healing Rain (5)

• Recharge reduced from 45 to 40 s.
• Radius reduced from 450 to 360.
• Each regeneration pulse replaced with a healing packet of 550 (0.5).
• Now has an initiative cost of 4.

Lightning Surge (2)
Cast-time: 1¼ s; Recharge: 8 s

• Shoot a rapid, piercing, blinding bolt of lightning. Every time this bolt strikes a foe, it also damages adjacent foes.
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (1.2)
• Blind: 3 s
• Radius on impact: 180
• Pierces
• Range: 1200
  • Ranger [Long Range Shot] projectile pathing and speed
  • Each time this projectile strikes a foe, it triggers an AoE damage packet and blind that strikes up to 5 foes at that target’s location (the stuck target + up to 4 others); this AoE trigger has no cooldown or limit aside from the total number of targets that can be struck by the projectile itself: 5 as listed in the tooltip.

Gust (3)

• Recharge reduced from 30 s to 20 s.

Windborne Speed (4)

• Recharge reduced from 30 s to 20 s.
• Now is a whirl finisher.
• No longer grants swiftness.
• Now grants super speed (3 s).
• Now has an initiative cost of 2.

[Static Field] (5)

• Recharge reduced from 40 s to 30 s.
• Radius reduced from 240 to 210.
• Now has an initiative cost of 4.

Stoning (1)

• Weakness duration reduced from 3 s to 2 s.

Eruption (2)

• Recharge reduced from 6 s to 5 s.

Magnetic Aura (3)

• Recharge reduced from 30 s to 15 s.
• Duration reduced from 5 s to 3 s.
• Now has an initiative cost of 3.

Shockwave (5)
Cast-time: 1 s; Initiative: 3; Recharge: 25 s

• Slam the ground with your staff and unleash a cascading shockwave in front of you; this attack deals more effects to foes in close range.
• Number of impacts: 3
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage per impact: (1.0)
• First impact immobilize: 2 s
• Second impact weakened: 4 s
• Final impact crippled: 5 s
• Range: 1200
• Unblockable
  • Revenant [Coalescence of Ruin]; attack animation taken from Experimental Staff (2 skill) at the Goldenlight Hallow heart.
  • The first impact inflicts all three listed impact effects (immobilized, crippled, weakened), the second inflicts only the bottom two (crippled, weakened), the third only inflicts the weakness; damage is equal for all impacts.

[Ether Renewal]
Cast-time: 3½ s – Recharge: 15 s

• Cantrip. Heal yourself and cure a condition with every pulse.
• Pulses (4x): every ¾ s
• Pulse healing: 1250 (0.15)
• Pulse conditions removed: 1

[Glyph of Elemental Harmony]
Cast-time: 1¼ s; Recharge: 20 s

• Glyph. Heal yourself and gain a bonus based on your current attunement. The next time you attune to an element, you gain an affect based on that element.
• Initial self-heal: 4150 (0.75)
• Aura of Restoration: 8 s
• Fire attunement: Generate a Blast Finisher
• Water attunement: Cure up to 2 conditions
• Air attunement: Gain super speed (3 s)
• Earth attunement: Gain aegis (3 s)

[Signet of Restoration]
Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 20 s

• Signet. Recharge your attunements. Heal yourself and gain initiative.
• Healing: 4150 (0.75)
• Initiative: 5

[Arcane Blast]
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 15 s

• Fire a bolt of arcane energy at your foe; gain initiative if it hits.
• Number of targets: 3
• Damage: (1.0)
• Initiative: 3
• Damage radius: 150
• Range: 1200
  • Now uses Elementalist [Fireball] projectile pathing.
  • Initiative gain is always 3 (as long as the attack hits) regardless of the number of targets struck.
  • No longer is a guaranteed critical hit.

[Arcane Mirror]
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 30 s

• Create a ward of energy which reflects projectiles in front of you.
• Duration: 4 s
  • Arcane Mirror model and hitbox taken from “reflect shield” ability on the Arah story mode ship cannons.

[Arcane Shield]

• Recharge reduced from 75 s to 50 s.
• Duration reduced from 5 s to 2 s.
• Explosion damage adjusted from 369 (critical) to a base damage coefficient of (1.6).
  • No longer is a guaranteed critical hit.

[Arcane Wave]
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 25 s

• Blast foes at the target area with an energy wave.
• Delay: 1 s
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (1.4)
• Radius: 180
• Combo Finisher: Blast
• Range: 1200
  • Now has a delay period of 1 s after cast before it deals its damage and effects; needs a ring visual cue model to denote that it is going to strike after its delay.
  • No longer is a guaranteed critical hit.

[Glyph of Elemental Power]
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 30 s

• Glyph. Recharge your attunements. Whenever you attune to an element, you gain a bonus based on that element.
• Elemental Power (2): 8 s
• Fire attunement unblockable strikes (3): 5 s
• Water attunement frost aura: 5 s
• Air attunement initiative: 3
• Earth attunement stability (1): 5 s
• Breaks stun.

[Glyph of Renewal]
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 60 s

• Glyph. For 10 seconds, you have +5 maximum initiative; you gain initiative whenever you swap attunements.
• Renewing Aura: 10 s
• Initiative gained upon attunement swap: 2

[Glyph of Storms]

• Cast-time reduced from 1¼ s to 1 s.
• Recharge reduced from 60 s to 40 s.
• Firestorm no longer inflicts burning.
• Lightning Storm duration reduced from 9 s to 6 s (impacts reduced from 36 to 24).
• Sandstorm reduced from 10 s to 6 s (pulses reduced from 11 to 7).

[Glyph of Lesser Elementals]

• Recharge reduced from 40 s to 30 s.
• This skill now begins recharging the instant that it is successfully cast.
• Each summon’s HP pool increased by 20% respectively.
• Air Elemental’s chain skill now grants super speed (3 s) instead of swiftness.

[Signet of Air]
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 25 s

• Blind nearby foes and gain super speed.
• Super speed: 3 s
• Number of foes: 5
• Blind: 3 s
• Radius: 240
• Breaks stun

[Signet of Earth]
Cast-time: ¼ s; Recharge: 30 s

• Create a rocky outcrop which immobilizes, cripples and bleeds foes that cross it.
• Immobilize: ¾ s
• Crippled: 3 s
• Bleeding (4): 6 s
• Line duration: 3 s
• Range: 900
  • Elementalist [Unsteady Ground].

[Signet of Fire]
Cast-time: ¼ s; Recharge: 12 s

• Ignite a fire at the target area.
• Pulses (5): every 1 s
• Pulse damage: (0.85)
• Duration: 5 s
• Combo Field: Fire
• Radius: 180
• Range: 900
  • Damage ticks at the end of every second.

[Signet of Water]
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 35 s

• Conjure a pool of freezing water which heals allies and chills foes at the target area.
• Number of allies: 5
• Number of targets: 5
• Pulses (3): every 2 s
• Duration: 4 s
• Healing: 808 (0.5)
• Chilled: 3 s
• Radius: 210
• Combo Field: Water
• Range: 900
  • First pulse occurs immediately upon creation and then at the end of every interval thereafter.

Armor of Earth (Xa)
Cast-time: 1½ s; Recharge: 25 s

• Gain protection, stability and block incoming attacks; gain initiative for each attack that you block. Cannot gain initiative more than once within the interval.
• Protection: 5 s
• Stability (2): 5 s
• Armor of Earth: 2 s
• Initiative gained per blocked attack: 2
• Interval: 1 s
• Breaks stun
  • Now uses the current Elementalist [Fortify] visual model; player can move while channeling this skill.

Stone Blast (Xb)
Cast-time: 1 s

• Stop blocking and release your armor of earth in an explosion of dust and stone that launches adjacent foes.
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (0.8)
• Launch: 450
• Combo Finisher: Blast
• Radius: 180

Cleansing Fire

• Recharge reduced from 40 s to 35 s.
• Condition cleanse now also affects up to 5 nearby allies (240 radius).
• Now also inflicts revealed (4 s).

Lightning Flash

• Recharge reduced from 40 s to 30 s.
• No longer deals damage.

Mist Form

• Recharge reduced from 75 s to 50 s.
• Form duration reduced from 3 s to 1½ s.
• Now also grants super speed (3 s).

Magnet Shield (1a)
Cast-time: ½ s

• Throw your shield in a line.
• Damage: (0.3)
• Range: 900
  • This skill does not consume a conjure charge.

Shield Spin (1b)

• Cast-time: ¾ s
• Spin forward, smacking foes with your shield.
• Number of targets: 3
• Number of strikes: 2
• Damage per strike: (0.3)
• Combo Finisher: Whirl
• Range: 300
  • This skill does not consume a conjure charge.
  • Shortened version of Warrior [Whirlwind Attack].

Shield Smash (1c)
Cast-time: ¾ s; Charges: 1

• Smash nearby foes with your shield.
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (1.4)
• Range: 150
  • This skill does still consume a conjure charge.

Stone Sheath (2)
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 25 s; Charges: 2

• Spin around and strike adjacent foes with your shield. Struck foes temporarily have greatly reduced precision.
• Number of foes: 5
• Damage: (0.2)
• Stone Sheath (3 s): -1000 precision
• Combo Finisher: Whirl
• Radius: 210

Magnetic Surge (3)
Cast-time: ¼ s; Recharge: 25 s; Charges: 3

• Unleash a piercing magnetic surge which dazes foes. This skill removes boons from foes at close range; gain might and protection for each boon removed in this way.
• Number of foes: 5
• Daze: 1 s
• Boons removed from foes within 300 range: 2
• Might (1) per boon removed: 8 s
• Protection per boon removed: 1 s
• Pierces
• Combo Finisher: Projectile
• Range: 600

Lava Axe (1)
Cast-time: 1 s; Charges: 1

• Throw a lava axe at your foe; inflicts vulnerability to burning foes.
• Damage: (0.75)
• Vulnerability (3) vs burning foes: 6 s
• Range: 900

Explosive Lava Axe (2)
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 4 s; Charges: 2

• Throw an explosive lava axe at the target location.
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (1.2)
• Radius: 180
• Combo Finisher: Blast
• Range: 900
• Minimum range: 100

[Flame Leap] (3)
Cast-time: ¼ s; Recharge: 10 s; Charges: 1

• Leap to the target location and strike foes with a burning attack.
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (1.2)
• Burning: 6 s
• Radius: 180
• Combo Finisher: Leap
• Range: 700
  • Engineer [Jump Shot] without the initial “leap damage” packet.

Water Arrow (1)
Cast-time: 1 s; Charges: 1

• Fire an arrow of water that freezes as it travels; inflicts bleeding based on distance traveled.
• Damage: (0.4)
• Bleeding at 300-600 range: 3 s
• Bleeding (2) at 600-900 range: 3 s
• Bleeding (3) at 900-1200 range: 3 s
• Range: 1200

Frost Volley (2)
Cast-time: 1½ s; Charges: 2

• Rapidly fire three shots at your foe.
• Damage per shot: (0.4)
• Vulnerability (2) per shot: 5 s
• Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
• Range: 900
  • Elementalist [Stone Shards] channel and projectile behavior.

Mirror of Ice (3)
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 15 s; Charges: 2

• Conjure a mirror of ice which reflects projectiles in front of you.
• Duration: 2 s
• Combo Field: Ice
  • Narrow section of Revenant [Field of the Mists].

Lightning Swing (1a)

• Damage coefficient reduced from (0.97) to (0.45)
• No longer consumes a charge.

Static Swing (1b)

• Damage coefficient reduced from (0.97) to (0.45)
• No longer consumes a charge.

Thunderclap (1c)

• Cast-time increased from ½ s to 1 s.
• Damage coefficient increased from (1.5) to (1.6).
• No longer inflicts blind.

Lightning Leap (2)
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 8 s; Charges: 3

• Leap and strike foes; gain initiative for each foe you strike.
• Number of targets: 3
• Damage: (0.9)
• Initiative gained per foe struck: 1
• Combo Finisher: Leap
• Range: 600

Wind Blast (3)
Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 25 s; Charges: 3

• Launch foes with a powerful wind blast.
• Number of targets: 3
• Launch: 600
• Range: 130
  • No longer deals damage.

[Glyph of Elementals]

• Recharge reduced from 90 s to 60 s.
• This skill now begins recharging the instant that it is successfully cast.
• Each summon’s HP pool increased by 10% respectively.
• Earth Elemental’s chain skill now counts as a blast finisher.

[Electrified Tornado] (1)
Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 150

• Cantrip. Gain stability and shape-shift into a tornado that damages and launches foes; this tornado shoots lightning bolts that bounce between foes.
• Stability (1): 3 s
• Number of targets: 5
• Tornado damage: (1.1)
• Tornado launch: 600
• Lightning bolt damage: (1.25)
• Number of bounces: 3
• Number of casts per interval: 3
• Damage pulse interval: 3 s
• Duration: 6 s
• Combo finisher: Whirl
• Combo field: Lightning
• Radius: 240
• Unblockable

[Dust Tornado] (2)
Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 150

• Cantrip. Gain stability and shape-shift into a tornado that damages and launches foes; this tornado shoots blinding dust devils.
• Stability (1): 3 s
• Number of targets: 5
• Tornado damage: (1.1)
• Tornado launch: 600
• Dust devil damage: (1.25)
• Blind: 5 s
• Number of casts per interval: 2
• Damage pulse interval: 3 s
• Duration: 6 s
• Combo finisher: Whirl
• Combo field: Lightning
• Radius: 240
• Unblockable

[Debris Tornado] (3)
Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 150

• Cantrip. Gain stability and shape-shift into a tornado that damages and launches foes; this tornado shoots out debris that knocks back foes.
• Stability (1): 3 s
• Number of targets: 5
• Tornado damage: (1.1)
• Tornado launch: 600
• Debris damage: (1.25)
• Number of bounces: 3
• Number of casts per interval: 3
• Damage pulse interval: 3 s
• Duration: 6 s
• Combo finisher: Whirl
• Combo field: Lightning
• Radius: 240
• Unblockable

[Flame Slash] (1)
Cast-time: 1 s; Charges: 1

• Swing and release a fireball that explodes on impact, damaging adjacent foes.
• Number of targets: 3
• Damage: (0.85)
• Impact radius: 150
• Range: 1200

Fiery Eruption (2)
Cast-time: 1¼ s; Recharge: 3 s; Charges: 2

• Ram your sword into the ground and erupt fire in a line in front of you.
• Number of targets: 5
• Pulses (4): every 1 s
• Damage per pulse: (0.65)
• Burning per pulse: 1 s
• Duration: 3 s
• Range: 480
  • Revenant [Searing Fissure].
  • Pulses immediately upon creation and at the end of each second thereafter.

Fiery Whirl (3)
Cast-time: ¼ s; Recharge: 3 s; Charges: 4

• Advance forward, slashing foes in your way.
• Number of impacts: 8
• Number of targets: 3
• Damage: (0.2)
• Crippled: ¾ s
• Evasion: ½ s
• Combo Finisher: Whirl
• Damage radius: 130
• Range: 900

Fiery Rush (4a)
Cast-time: 0; Recharge: 10 s

• Gain haste.
• Haste: 2 s

Fiery Slash (4b)
Cast-time: ½ s; Charges: 2

• Leap and slash at your foe; damage adjacent foes if you hit.
• Number of targets: 3
• Damage: (1.4)
• Radius: 180
• Combo Finisher: Leap
• Range: 600
  • Guardian [Leap of Faith].

Firestorm (5)
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 20 s

• Call down a firestorm on the target area.
• Number of targets: 10
• Damage: (0.75)
• Duration: 8 s
• Radius: 180
• Range: 900

[Fire’s Embrace] (I – A1)

• Gain a fire aura whenever you use a glyph or signet.
• Fire aura: 2 s

[Fire Blast] (II – A2)

• Whenever you attune to fire, you generate a blast finisher.

[Renewing Flame] (III – A3)

• Gain initiative when you attune to fire.
• Initiative: 1

[Flame Axe Mastery] (IV – M1)

• Gain Flame Leap and Ardent Bond as flame axe abilities.

Molten Rush (4)
Cast-time: ½ s; Recharge: 15 s; Charges: 3

• Gain super speed and leave behind patches of molten ground as you move.
• Super speed: 2 s
• Molten Rush: 2 s
• Number of targets: 5
• Molten patches created (3): every 1 s
• Molten patch pulse (3): every 1 s
• Damage: (0.5)
• Duration: 3 s
• Radius: 100
  • Molten patches generated by Engineer [Slick Shoes] mechanic; first patch generated upon skill activation and one patch generated at the end of every second thereafter.
  • Molten patch pulses occur at the end of each second (no damage dealt upon initial patch creation).

[Ardent Bond] (5)
Cast-time: ½ s; Recharge: 40 s; Charges: 5

• Grant fury and a fire aura to yourself and nearby allies.
• Number of allies: 5
• Fury: 8 s
• Fire aura: 5 s
• Radius: 360

[Furious Flames] (V – M2)

• Blast finishers you execute on fire fields grant fury; fire fields last longer.
• Number of allies: 5
• Fury: 8 s
• Radius: 360
• Fire field duration increase: 2 s

[Mage Flame] (VI – M3)
Recharge: 10 s

• You deal more damage to burning foes. While attuned to fire, inflicting burning also removes a boon.
• Boons removed: 1
• Damage increase vs burning foes: 10%
  • Boon removal cool-down is per target rather than global; only in effect while attuned to fire.
  • Damage bonus vs burning targets is constant across all attunements.

[Conjurer] (VII – GM1)

• Conjured weapons no longer cost initiative to activate.

[Steam Cloud] (VIII – GM2)
Recharge: 15 s

• While attuned to fire, blast finishers you execute in water fields produce a line of steam which destroys incoming projectiles.
• Line duration: 4 s
• Combo Field: Smoke
  • Produces a recolored Thief [Smoke Screen] model.
  • This trait needs to appear on the player’s HUD in order to allow the user to know when it is fully recharged and available for use (same mechanic as Engineer [Streamlined Kits]).

[Glowing Gaze] (IX – GM3)

• Recharge: 5 s
• While attuned to fire, you gain might and initiative whenever you strike a burning foe.
• Might (3): 10 s
• Initiative: 2
  • Cool-down is global.

Inscription (I – A1)

• Whenever you cast a glyph, you and nearby allies gain a bonus associated with your current attunement.
• Number of allies: 5
• Fire attunement might (3): 10 s
• Water attunement healing: 808 (0.5)
• Air attunement super speed: 2½ s
• Earth attunement conditions cured: 2
• Radius: 300

[Strong Winds] (II – A2)
Recharge: 15 s

• You cast a smaller form of [Swirling Winds] whenever you successfully perform a whirl finisher.
• Swirling winds: 3 s
• Radius: 180
  • This trait only triggers if the player successfully combos a whirl finisher with a valid field.
  • This trait needs to appear on the player’s HUD in order to allow the user to know when it is fully recharged and available for use (same mechanic as Engineer [Streamlined Kits]).

One with Air (III – A3)

• You recover more quickly from crippling, immobilization, and chilling. Gain super speed when you attune to air.
• Conditions affected: Immobilize; Crippled; Chilled
• Condition recharge reduction: 33%
• Super speed: 3 s

[Lightning Hammer Mastery] (IV – M1)

• Gain Lightning Storm and Static Ward as lightning hammer abilities.

[Lightning Storm] (4)
Cast-time: 1 s; Recharge: 15 s

• Randomly strike the target area with lightning.
• Number of impacts (20): every
• Damage per impact: (0.45)
• Duration: 5 s
• Radius: 180
• Range: 900
  • Lightning strike AoE radius remains the same; only the total area radius in which the lightning strikes appear has been adjusted to 180.
  • This skill now uses ground-targeting.

[Static Ward] (5)
Cast-time: ¾ s; Recharge: 35 s

• Conjure a line of electricity that immobilizes and removes boons from foes that cross it.
• Immobilize: 2 s
• Boons removed: 3
• Duration: 4 s
• Unblockable
• Range: 900
  • This skill now uses ground-targeting.

[Lightning Rod] (V – M2)

• While attuned to air, you strike foes with an enervating lightning bolt when you disable them.
• Damage: (0.4)
• Weakness: 5 s

[Bold Wind] (VI – M3)

• Every second that you are under the effects of super speed, you gain a stacking ferocity bonus. You recover initiative faster while under the effects of super speed.
• Bold Wind (8 s): +30 ferocity
• Maximum stacks: 10
• Interval: 1 s
• Super speed initiative regeneration speed increase: 100%
  • The player also benefits from this trait’s healing.

Brilliant Flash (VI – GM1)

• Blinding Flash is now Brilliant Flash.

[Brilliant Flash] (Air Scepter 3 – Traited)
Cast-time: 0; Initiative: 4; Recharge: 25 s

• Blind and reveal nearby foes.
• Number of targets: 5
• Blind: 4 s
• Reveal: 4 s
• Radius: 240
  • This skill is now an instant PBAoE attack instead of a ground-targeted ability.

Bolt to the Heart (VIII – GM2)

• Deal more damage when your foe’s health drops below the threshold.
• Damage increase: 20%
• Health threshold: 50%

Fresh Air (IX – GM3)
Recharge: 10 s

• Your air attunement recharges faster. While attuned to air, you recharge your air skills when you interrupt a foe.
• Air attunement recharge reduction: 50%
• Air skill recharge reduction on foe interruption: 25%
  • The cool-down is global and only governs the air skill recharge reduction trigger.

Stone Splinters (I – A1)
Recharge: 3 s

• While attuned to earth, you bleed adjacent foes whenever you successfully evade or block an attack.
• Number of targets: 3
• Bleeding (2): 5 s
• Radius: 180
  • Damage bonus vs targets at 600 range or less is constant across all attunements.
  • The cool-down is per-target and only governs the air skill recharge reduction trigger.

[Written in Stone] (II – A2)

• When you swap attunements, the next outgoing attack from you and allies in the area are unblockable.
• Number of allies: 5
• Unblockable (1): 2 s
• Radius: 360
• Combat only

[Ward Against Melee] (III – A3)

• You take less damage from foes within close range. You deal more damage to foes within close
• Damage bonus vs foes within 600 range: +10%
• Damage reduction vs foes within 600 range: -10%

[Earth Shield Master] (IV – M1)

• Gain Magnetic Shield and Fortify as earth shield abilities.

[Magnetic Shield] (4)
Cast-time: 1¼ s; Recharge: 25 s; Charges: 2

• Pull foes in the area to you with magnetic force.
• Number of targets: 5
• Pull: 500
• Radius: 600
• Unblockable

[Fortify] (5)
Cast-time: 1½ s; Recharge: 50 s; Charges: 5

• Cure conditions on yourself and allies in the area. Affected allies are temporarily immune to incoming conditions.
• Number of allies: 5
• Initial conditions removed: 2
• Fortify (3 s): Immune to incoming conditions
• Radius: 600

[Heavy Rollout] (V – M2)
Recharge: 10 s

• While attuned to earth, you cast a form of Churning Earth whenever you dodge.
• Number of targets: 5
• Bleeding (2): 4 s
• Radius: 240
• Combo Finisher: Blast
• Combat only

[Kinetic Armor] (VI – M3)

• Gain permanent power based on your toughness. Attuning to an element grants a stacking toughness bonus.
• Gain power based on a percentage of toughness: 7%
• Kinetic Armor (8 s): +100 toughness
• Combat only

[Diamond Skin] (VII – GM1)
Recharge: 1 s

• While attuned to earth, you have reduced incoming condition duration. While attuned to earth, you create a crystal at your location whenever you lose a condition; this crystal explodes after a delay, damaging adjacent foes.
• Crystal delay: 2 s
• Number of targets: 5
• Damage: (1.2)
• Radius: 180
• Incoming condition duration reduction while attuned to earth: 50%
  • This trait’s “lose a condition” trigger casts a skill which instantly summons an “arcane pink” color palate version of the current Elementalist [Shatterstone] skill; the listed cooldown only governs the crystal generation effect.

Rock Solid (VIII – GM2)

• When you attune to earth, you break stun on yourself and nearby allies.
• Number of allies: 5
• Radius: 360

Stone Heart (IX – GM3)

• When you attune to earth, you cast Stone Sheath on nearby foes.
• Number of targets: 5
• Stone Sheath (3 s): -1000 precision
• Radius: 240
• Combat only

[Piercing Shards] (I – A1)
Recharge: 5 s

• Deal more damage to vulnerable foes. While attuned to water, you inflict bleeding when you apply vulnerability stacks to a target that equal or surpass the threshold.
• Damage increase vs vulnerable foes: 5%
• Vulnerability stack threshold: 5
• Threshold bleeding (3): 5 s
  • The cool-down is per target rather than global and governs only the bleeding trigger.
  • Damage bonus vs vulnerable targets is constant across all attunements.

[Slippery Ground] (II – A2)

• Blast finishers you execute on frost fields remove stability from nearby foes. Whirl finishers you execute on frost fields knock down adjacent foes.
• Number of targets: 5
• Frost field blast finisher boon removed: Stability
• Blast radius: 240
• Unblockable
• Frost field whirl finisher knock down: ¾ s
• Whirl radius: 180
• Unblockable

[Mighty Spring] (III – A3)

• [Signet of Water] is now [Signet of Springs].

[Signet of Springs (Signet of Water – traited)
Cast-time: ¼ s; Recharge: 15 s

• Cure immobilize, crippled and chilled; conjure a burst of spring water beneath you that heals allies and propels you through the air in a mighty leap to the target location. Heal allies where you land.
• Conditions cured: Immobilize; Crippled; Chilled
• Evade: ¾ s
• Number of allies: 5
• Initial healing: 808 (0.5)
• Landing healing 808 (0.5)
• Blast finisher
• Range: 500,000
  • Leap mechanic equivalent to Klagg’s jump shot rifle at his vista in Lion’s Arch.
  • The initial jump is the blast finisher trigger.

[Ice Bow Mastery] (IV – M1)

• Gain Ice Storm and Deep Freeze as frost bow abilities.

Ice Storm (4)
Cast-time: 2¾ s; Recharge: 35 s; Charges: 5

• Call down an ice storm on the target area.
• Impacts: 24
• Damage per impact: (0.75)
• Radius: 210
• Range: 900
  • Strikes no longer inflict bleeding.

Deep Freeze (5)
Cast-time: 1¼ s; Recharge: 40 s; Charges: 5

• Stun and foes in front of you with a cascading icy blast which leaves behind a chilling field.
• Number of targets: 5
• Cascading attacks: 6
• Stun per cascading attack: ½ s
• Field pulses (6): every 1 s
• Chill per pulse: 1½ s
• Field duration: 5 s
• Combo Field: Ice
• Range: 600
  • Revenant [Inspiring Reinforcement]
  • The player can now move while activating this skill.

[Healing Ripple] (V – M2)
Recharge: 10 s

• While attuned to water, you cast a form of Cleansing Wave whenever you dodge.
• Number of allies: 5
• Healing: 808 (0.5)
• Conditions cured: 1
• Radius: 240
• Combat only.

[Aquatic Benevolence] (VI – M3)
Recharge: ¾ s

• Reduces water attunement’s recharge. While attuned to water, healing done to other allies is increased. Whenever you heal another ally while attuned to water, you partially recharge your water skills.
• Water attunement recharge reduction: 50%
• Healing effectiveness increase: 20%
• Water skill recharge on heal: 5%
  • Cool-down is global and simultaneously governs the water skill recharge-on-heal effect.

Cleansing Water (VII – GM1)

• Recharge: 5 s
• While attuned to water, you cure conditions on allies whenever you heal them.
• Conditions cured: 1
  • Cool-down is per target rather than global.

Powerful Aura (VIII – GM2)

• Whenever you gain an aura, nearby allies also gain that aura.
• Number of allies: 5
• Radius: 600

[Ward Against Harm] (IX – GM3)

• Water fields that you generate now also grant protection to allies in their radius upon creation. Whenever you blast a water field, you grant aegis to nearby allies.
• Number of allies: 5
• Initial water field protection: 3 s
• Water field blast aegis: 5 s
• Blast radius: 360

Lingering Elements (I – A1)

• Attunement bonuses linger after leaving that attunement.
• Lingering duration: 5 s
  • Useful for traits that require one to be in a specific attunement in order to trigger their effects.

Arcane Energy (II – A2)

• Gain initiative and endurance when you use an arcane skill.
• Initiative: 1
• Endurance: 25

Ether Prodigy (III – A3)

• Gain a damage bonus whenever your initiative is above the threshold.
• Initiative threshold: 5
• Damage bonus: +10%

Arcane Coil (IV – M1)
Recharge: 10 s

• Attuning to an element counts as a whirl finisher. Whenever you successfully perform a whirl finisher, you gain initiative.
• Whirl finisher initiative: 1
• Combat only
  • This trait needs to appear on the player’s HUD in order to allow the user to know when it is fully recharged and available for use (same mechanic as Engineer [Streamlined Kits]).

[Ether Prism] (V – M2)

• [Arcane Shield] is now [Ether Prism]

[Ether Prism]
Cast-time: 3 s; Recharge: 50 s

• Arcane. Block attacks with an energy shield; block more attacks if you above the initiative threshold when you activate this skill. If you block a projectile, nearby foes take damage and bleed. If you block a melee attack, nearby foes take damage and are blinded.
• Ether Prism (3): 3 s
• Initiative threshold: 7
• Threshold bonus Ether Prism (3): 2½ s
• Number of foes: 5
• Damage per block: (0.3)
• Projectile block bleeding (2): 8 s
• Melee block blind: 3 s
• Radius: 240
  • Engineer [Gear Shield] style channeled block with a limited number of block triggers built into it; exhausting the block charges interrupts the channel.
  • While in effect on a player, this skill uses an “arcane shield” color palate version of the crystal prison model created by Subject Alpha which encases the user while they move.

[Vital Ether] (VI – M3)

• Gain a vitality bonus based on your maximum initiative.
• Bonus vitality per point of initiative: +30

Elemental Surge (VII – GM1)

• Whenever you swap attunement, your next attack inflicts a condition based on that attunement.
• Fire attunement burning: 3 s
• Water attunement chilled: 1½ s
• Air attunement vulnerability (3): 5 s
• Earth attunement weakness: 1½ s
• Combat only
  • If this effect is already present on a player when swapping to another attunement, that next attunement’s effect will overwrite the previous instance of this effect (i.e. no one can enter combat, swap through 3 attunements and then have their next attack inflict 3 conditions).

[Bountiful Power] (VIII – GM2)

• While you are at or above the might stack threshold, you pulse a stacking damage bonus effect which affects both you and allies in the area.
• Might stack threshold: 15
• Number of allies: 5
• Bountiful Power (6 s): +2% damage increase
• Maximum stacks: 5
• Radius: 600
• Interval: 2 s
• Combat only

[Energy Storage] (IX – GM3)

• Increases your maximum initiative pool.
• Max initiative pool: +3