Polaric Leap

Shadowstep to your target and deliver a dazing strike. Gain superspeed if you interrupt an enemy. — In-game description

Polaric Leap

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Specialization

Weaver

Weapon

Main hand sword

Attunement

Air

Movement

Shadowstep

Game link

API

44998

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0.5½  

15

12

 

Polaric Leap

Shadowstep to your target and deliver a dazing strike. Gain superspeed if you interrupt an enemy.

 Damage: 242 (0.66)^?

 Damage: 121 (0.33)^?

 Superspeed (3s): Movement speed is greatly increased. Maximum duration: 10s

 Daze: 0.25¼ seconds

 Combo Finisher: Leap

 Defiance Break: 100

 Range: 600

— 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.
• Aeromancer's Training — Gain ferocity, and gain additional ferocity while attuned to air. Air weapon skills get a reduced recharge time.
• Lightning Rod — Cast Lightning Rod when you disable a foe. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Arcane

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

Weaver

• Swift Revenge — Gain swiftness when using a Dual Attack. Deal increased strike damage to enemies while under the effects of swiftness or superspeed.
• Woven Stride — Gain swiftness when you are inflicted with inhibiting conditions. When gaining either superspeed or swiftness, also gain regeneration and cleanse a condition. Swiftness has increased effectiveness.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 19, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 15 seconds to 12 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 14, 2023	Increased power coefficient from 0.33 to 0.66 in PvE only.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
July 10, 2018	Increased the duration of superspeed gained from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.
December 12, 2017	Skills, traits, and sigils that have bonus effects when interrupting foes will now activate when used against foes with defiance bars as though they had been interrupted.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Polaric Leap has been added to the game.