Primordial Stance

Stance. Channel the prime elements at their core, dealing damage based on your current attunements. Fully attuning deals the same condition twice. — In-game description

Primordial Stance

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Specialization

Weaver

Slot

Utility

Type

Stance

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

40183

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Primordial Stance

Stance. Channel the prime elements at their core, dealing damage based on your current attunements. Fully attuning deals the same condition twice.

 Damage: 88 (0.33)^?

 Burning (2s): 262 Damage

 Burning (10.5½s): 197 Damage

 Chilled (1s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

₈ Vulnerability (3s): +8% Incoming Damage, +8% Incoming Condition Damage

₂ Bleeding (6s): 264 Damage

 Primordial Stance (5s): Deal damage and inflict conditions based on your current attunements.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Maximum Count: 2

 Count Recharge: 20 seconds

 Count Recharge: 25 seconds

 Interval: 1 second

 Radius: 180

— In-game description

Related traits

Fire

• Burning Precision — Burning you inflict has increased duration and your critical hits gain a chance to inflict burning.
• Pyromancer's Training — Your fire-weapon skills gain reduced recharge. Deal increased strike damage to burning foes.
• Blinding Ashes — Inflict blindness on foes you burn. This trait can only affect the same enemy once per interval.

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.

Weaver

• Elemental Pursuit — Gain superspeed when inflicting inhibiting conditions on enemies.
• Bolstered Elements — Gain protection when activating a Stance. Activate Lesser Stone Resonance when using an elite skill.

Notes

Bug:

Sometimes will not cause any effect if activated in an instance before swapping attunements at least once.

• Switching attunements while the stance is active does change the conditions inflicted accordingly.
• Multiple instances of this skill can be activated at the same time, causing the full effects of each, though only one buff will show (and be refreshed) on the buff bar.
• Your character will occasionally shout one of the following lines upon activating this skill:
  • I see the pattern at last!
  • Your seams are showing.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 07, 2020	Burning duration has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds, with the PvP and WvW versions remaining at 1.5 seconds. Bleeding duration has been reduced from 8 seconds to 6 seconds globally.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased ammo recharge from 20 seconds to 25 seconds. Reduced burning duration from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds.
July 16, 2019	Reduced ammo recharge time from 25 seconds to 20 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Primordial Stance has been added to the game.