Lightning Strike

Alpha-2 Lightning Strike ability. VFX by John Kent.

This one's a little more straightforward. It's kind of one of your bread-and-butter single target abilities. You can charge it for varying degrees of efficacy. So, you can either release it really soon to apply stacks quickly of the Electrified status effect in the lightning category, or you can charge it up longer and do more damage. – Tradd Thompson

Alpha-2 Mage skill:

• Targeted skill: Yes.
• Mana: 25.
• Cooldown: 12s.
• Range: 30m.
• Held ability: Yes.
• Use: 2.6s.

Base skill

Held ability: Charge up a bolt of lightning to unleash upon your target, dealing (275%🢆) lightning damage based on how long it was charged. Also applies 20 stacks of Shocked to targets.

Elemental empowerment

Skill	Icon	Description
Elemental Empowerment		Whenever you cast an elemental spell, your weapon combo finishers apply a stack of Burning, Chilled, or Volatile to targets hit, based on the current empowered element. Casting a spell of another element changes your current Elemental Empowerment to that element.

See also

• Mage
• Classes
• Archetypes