Gale Strike

Dual Attack. Strike your enemies, lifting them and creating cyclones at their locations. — In-game description

Gale Strike

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Specialization

Weaver

Weapon

Main hand sword

Attunement

Air, Earth

Type

Dual Attack

Game link

API

46295

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0.75¾  20  

Gale Strike

Dual Attack. Strike your enemies, lifting them and creating cyclones at their locations.

 Damage: 101 (0.275)^?

 Damage: 4 (0.01)^?

₅ Bleeding (5s): 550 Damage

₅ Bleeding (1s): 110 Damage

₅ Vulnerability (5s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage

 Float: 2 seconds

 Number of Targets per Cyclone: 1

 Initial Targets: 3

 Cyclone Lifetime: 10.5½ seconds

 Interval: 0.5½ seconds

 Cyclone Radius: 120

 Defiance Break: 200

 Range: 170

— 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

• Serrated Stones — Bleeding you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased damage to bleeding foes.

Water

• Piercing Shards — Vulnerability you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased strike damage to vulnerable foes. Damage bonus is doubled while attuned to water.

Arcane

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

Weaver

• Superior Elements — Dual Attack skills weaken enemies. Attacks against weakened foes have increased critical chance.
• Elemental Refreshment — Grant barrier to yourself when using Dual Attack skills.
• Swift Revenge — Gain swiftness when using a Dual Attack. Deal increased strike damage to enemies while under the effects of swiftness or superspeed.
• Invigorating Strikes — Gain vigor when using a Dual Attack. Dodge rolling grants a barrier.

Notes

• This skill deals damage each hit upon inflicting Bleeding and Vulnerability.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	Increased the angle of this skill's hit box.
June 27, 2023	Increased float duration from 1.25 seconds to 2 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 per strike from 0.275 to 0.01. Reduced bleeding duration from 5 seconds to 1 second.
February 06, 2018	Damage per strike has been increased by 25%.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Gale Strike has been added to the game.