Quake

Your stone spirit slams the ground and creates an earthen blast that inhibits enemies. — In-game description

Quake

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Spirit

Sequence

 → 

Game link

API

12599

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0.75¾  

Quake

Your stone spirit slams the ground and creates an earthen blast that inhibits enemies.

 Cripple (6s): -50% Movement Speed

 Cripple (4s): -50% Movement Speed

 Weakness (6s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

 Weakness (4s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 360

 Combo Finisher: Blast

— In-game description

Related traits

Marksmanship

• Predator's Onslaught — You and your pet deal increased strike damage to disabled, defiant, or movement-impaired foes. Affected conditions are stun, taunt, daze, cripple, fear, immobilize, and chilled.

Nature Magic

• Nature's Vengeance — Spirits slam again when they finish shaking.

Soulbeast

• Oppressive Superiority — Deal increased damage to foes at a lower health percentage than you. Conditions you apply to foes at a lower health percentage than you last longer.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	Spirits have been reworked. A spirit will now grant an initial effect when summoned, slam the ground for a secondary effect, and then grant boons to nearby allies for a period of time. Guild Wars 2 Wiki note: This skill was renamed from Quicksand to Quake
March 05, 2019	Spirit Active Skills: These skills no longer sacrifice the spirit and instead cause them to teleport to the ranger's location before the spirit uses their active skill. These skills now have a 0.25-second casting time. The recharge time for these skills remains at 20 seconds.
June 24, 2015	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from properly recharging when used.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: All ranger spirit's active abilities have had their maximum targets increased to 5. All ranger spirit's active abilities are more potent and sacrifice the spirit. The recharge of all nonelite ranger spirits has been reduced to 20 seconds.
October 21, 2014	Fixed a bug that prevented the untraited version of this skill from displaying the red danger ring for opponents.
September 30, 2014	Spirits: Added a red indicator ring to spirit attacks to show range for opponents.
July 01, 2014	Corrected the order of condition skill facts to match similar skills.
April 15, 2014	Added a skill fact for number of targets (3) to the spirit's Quicksand.
August 20, 2013	Added a radius skill fact.
June 11, 2013	This skill's facts will now display properly.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Quicksand has been added to the game.