Arcane Lightning

Arcane skills grant increased ferocity and have additional effects. — In-game description

Arcane Lightning

Specialization

Arcane (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Arcane Lightning

Arcane skills grant increased ferocity and have additional effects.

 Protection (30.5½s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Immobilize (10.5½s): Unable to move.

 Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

₂ Stability (4s): Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, pulled, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, feared, or taunted.

 Quickness (4s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Arcane Lightning (15s): Increases your ferocity.

 Ferocity: +150

— In-game description

Mechanics

•   Arcane Brilliance — Grants  Protection at the end of its animation.
•   Arcane Wave — Inflicts  Immobile on enemies struck.
•   Arcane Blast — Inflicts  Blinded on enemies struck.
•   Arcane Shield — Grants ₂ Stability when the shield is destroyed or expires.
•   Arcane Echo — Grants  Quickness when cast.

Bugs:

•   Arcane Brilliance — Also inflict a condition depending on the attunement, most likely inherited from former trait functionality:

 Burning: 131 Damage

 Chilled: -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

 Blindness: Next outgoing attack misses.

 Immobilize: Unable to move.

•   Arcane Wave — In PvE, immobilize lasts 2 seconds instead of 1.5 seconds.
•   Arcane Echo —  Arcane Lightning is not granted by this skill.

Related skills

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

•   Arcane Brilliance — Arcane

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Arcane Blast — Arcane
•   Arcane Echo — Arcane
•   Arcane Shield — Arcane
•   Arcane Wave — Arcane

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Lesser Arcane Shield — Final Shielding

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Earth

• Strength of Stone — Gain condition damage based on your toughness. Inflict bleeding when you immobilize a foe. Bleeding can only occur on the same target once per interval.

Tempest

• Hardy Conduit — Overloads grant protection to nearby allies. Protection gains increased damage reduction.

Weaver

• Elemental Pursuit — Gain superspeed when inflicting inhibiting conditions on enemies.

Catalyst

• Vicious Empowerment — Gain Elemental Empowerment and might when you disable or immobilize a foe.

Evoker

• Enhanced Potency — Improve a boon based on your familiar.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	This trait now grants the user quickness when they use Arcane Echo.
March 19, 2024	Elemental Surge: This trait has been renamed to Arcane Lightning. This trait no longer causes arcane skills to inflict conditions and instead enhances each arcane skill as follows: Arcane Brilliance: Grants protection to the user. Arcane Wave: Immobilizes enemies that it strikes. Arcane Shield: Grants stability to the user when the shield expires. Arcane Power: Grants additional critical-strike stacks to the user. Arcane Blast: Blinds enemies that it strikes.
June 27, 2023	This trait no longer reduces the cooldown of arcane skills.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced immobilize duration from 2 seconds to 1 second.
May 18, 2017	The burn duration from this skill has been reduced to 4 seconds from 5 seconds.
May 17, 2017	When used with Arcane Power, this trait now considers the caster of the ability as the source when dealing conditions and will apply them based on the caster's current attunement.
October 18, 2016	Immobilize duration has been increased from 1 second to 2 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. Added: Gain 150 more ferocity for 15 seconds when you use an arcane skill. Added: Arcane abilities recharge 20% faster.
May 28, 2013	Now functions correctly with the Arcane Shield while the player is attuned to air.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Elemental Surge has been added to the game.