Arcane Lightning

Arcane skills grant increased ferocity and have additional effects. — In-game description

Arcane Lightning

Specialization

Arcane (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Arcane Lightning

Arcane skills grant increased ferocity and have additional effects.

 Protection (30.5½s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Immobilize (10.5½s): Unable to move.

 Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

₂ Stability (4s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

₂ Arcane Power (5s): Attacks do critical damage.

 Arcane Lightning (15s): Increases your ferocity.

 Ferocity: +150

— In-game description

Mechanics

• Arcane Shield provides stability after the shield expires or is destroyed.

Bugs:

• In PvE, the duration of immobilize from Arcane Wave is instead 2 seconds.
•   Arcane Brilliance still inflicts a condition depending on current attunement.

Related skills

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   Arcane Brilliance — Arcane

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Arcane Blast — Arcane
•   Arcane Power — Arcane
•   Arcane Shield — Arcane
•   Arcane Wave — Arcane

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Lesser Arcane Shield — Final Shielding

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Earth

• 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.

Arcane

• Bountiful Power — Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.

Tempest

• Hardy Conduit — Overloads grant protection to nearby allies. Protection gains increased damage reduction.

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.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 19, 2024	Elemental Surge: This trait has been renamed to Arcane Lightning. This trait no longer causes arcane skills to inflict conditions and instead enhances each arcane skill as follows: Arcane Brilliance: Grants protection to the user. Arcane Wave: Immobilizes enemies that it strikes. Arcane Shield: Grants stability to the user when the shield expires. Arcane Power: Grants additional critical-strike stacks to the user. Arcane Blast: Blinds enemies that it strikes.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced immobilize duration from 2 seconds to 1 second.
May 18, 2017	The burn duration from this skill has been reduced to 4 seconds from 5 seconds.
May 17, 2017	When used with Arcane Power, this trait now considers the caster of the ability as the source when dealing conditions and will apply them based on the caster's current attunement.
October 18, 2016	Immobilize duration has been increased from 1 second to 2 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. Added: Gain 150 more ferocity for 15 seconds when you use an arcane skill. Added: Arcane abilities recharge 20% faster.
May 28, 2013	Now functions correctly with the Arcane Shield while the player is attuned to air.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Elemental Surge has been added to the game.