Lightning Rod (engineer spear skill)

This article is about the engineer skill. For other uses, see Lightning Rod (disambiguation).

Prime your lightning rod to deal damage to nearby enemies. Focused enemies receive extra punishment. Gain charges for your Electric Artillery skill. — In-game description

Lightning Rod

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Sequence

 → 

Game link

API

73002

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12

15

 

Lightning Rod

Prime your lightning rod to deal damage to nearby enemies. Focused enemies receive extra punishment. Gain charges for your Electric Artillery skill.

 Focused Target Damage: 92 (0.25)^?

 Focused Target Damage: 64 (0.175)^?

 Damage: 55 (0.15)^?

 Damage: 46 (0.125)^?

₂ Focused Target Vulnerability (8s): +2% Incoming Damage, +2% Incoming Condition Damage

₂ Focused Target Vulnerability (6s): +2% Incoming Damage, +2% Incoming Condition Damage

 Unfocused Target Vulnerability (6s): +1% Incoming Damage, +1% Incoming Condition Damage

 Charges per target struck. (14s): Lightning Rod Charges

 Maximum Stacks: 12

 Number of Impacts: 8

 Duration: 4 seconds

 Interval: 0.5½ seconds

 Radius: 180

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Shaped Charge — Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.

Firearms

• Modified Ammunition — Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.

Notes

• Though unstated, Lightning Rod can only strike a maximum of 5 targets per impact.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2024	Lightning Rod was available during the Spear Beta Event.