Lightning Strike

Hex Spell. Strike target foe for 10...50...60 lightning damage. This spell has 25% armor penetration. If you are Overcast, that foe is hexed with Lightning Strike for 3 seconds. When this hex ends, that foe is struck again for 20...36...40 lightning damage.

Lightning Strike

• 5
• 1
• 5

Profession

Elementalist

Attribute

Air Magic

Type

Hex spell

Campaign

Core

Hex Spell. Strike target foe for 10...50...60 lightning damage. This spell has 25% armor penetration. If you are Overcast, that foe is hexed with Lightning Strike for 3 seconds. When this hex ends, that foe is struck again for 20...36...40 lightning damage.

Concise description

Hex Spell. Deals 10...50...60 lightning damage. 25% armor penetration. Hex for 3 seconds if Overcast. End effect: deals 20...36...40 lightning damage.

Progression
Air Magic Initial Lightning damage Final Lightning damage	0 10 20 1 13 21 2 17 23 3 20 24 4 23 25 5 27 27 6 30 28 7 33 29 8 37 31 9 40 32 10 43 33 11 47 35 12 50 36 13 53 37 14 57 39 15 60 40 16 63 41 17 67 43 18 70 44 19 73 45 20 77 47 21 80 48

Acquisition

Unlock and learn

Skill quests

• Prophecies
  • Hungry Devourer (Beacon's Perch)
• Nightfall
  • Primary Training (Churrhir Fields)
  • Choose Your Secondary Profession (Churrhir Fields)

Skill trainers

• Prophecies
  • Firstwatch Sergio (Lion's Arch)
  • Dakk (Ember Light Camp)
• Factions
  • Michiko (Kaineng Center)
• Nightfall
  • Tohn (Kamadan, Jewel of Istan)

Unlock only

Heroes

• Eye of the North
  • Unlocking Vekk

Related skills

• Incendiary Bonds
• Lightning Surge (elite)
• Shatterstone (elite)

Hero Usage

• Heroes use this spell as a basic damage skill, ignoring its effects with overcast.

Notes

• Provided that the prerequisites for additional damage of the skills are met, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Hammer, Lightning Orb, and Mind Shock deal the same amount of damage from Air Magic rank 14 to 16.

Anomaly. Similar to Incendiary Bonds and Lightning Surge, removing the hex before it ends will negate the end effect, unlike Shatterstone and most other skills with an end effect.

Anomaly.Despite the ambiguity of the concise description, the end effect damage also has 25% armor penetration.

Trivia

• The functionality of this skill has changed since its introduction; see its skill history for details.