Ice Spike

Drop a giant ice spike on foes to make them vulnerable. — In-game description

Ice Spike

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Staff

Attunement

Water

Game link

API

5550

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0.75¾  6  

Ice Spike

Drop a giant ice spike on foes to make them vulnerable.

 Damage: 605 (1.5)^?

 Damage: 456 (1.13)^?

₅ Vulnerability (10s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage

₁₂ Vulnerability (6s): +12% Incoming Damage, +12% Incoming Condition Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 300

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Texture on the ground.

Water

• Piercing Shards — Vulnerability you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased strike damage to vulnerable foes. Damage bonus is doubled while attuned to water.
• Aquamancer's Training — Increase healing to other allies. Water-weapon skills gain reduced recharge.

Notes

• If cancelled or interrupted, the animation will still play but will have no effect.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 28, 2022	Increased power coefficient from 0.91 to 1.13 in PvP and WvW.
July 07, 2020	Reduced cooldown from 8 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.5 to 0.91. Adjusted vulnerability duration from 5 stacks for 10 seconds to 12 stacks for 6 seconds. Increased cooldown from 6 seconds to 8 seconds.
December 11, 2018	This skill now strikes first before applying vulnerability.
June 20, 2017	The cooldown of this skill has been increased from 4 seconds to 6 seconds and now causes a blast finisher when the spike lands.
October 18, 2016	The casting time for this ability has been reduced from 1 second to 0.75 seconds. Aftercast of this ability has been reduced by 0.5 seconds.
July 26, 2016	Fixed a bug in which the animation became unsynchronized when this skill was used under the effects of quickness or slow.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Blasting Staff: The effects of this trait have been added to all staff-skill area attacks by default.
April 15, 2014	Fixed a bug that allowed the spell effects to continue even if the skill was canceled early.
January 28, 2013	This skill now appropriately displays area-of-effect rings.
November 15, 2012	This skill's tooltip now states the correct amount of vulnerability when traited.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Ice Spike has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.