Ride the Lightning

Skill details

Ride the Lightning

Campaign Factions Profession Elementalist Attribute Air Magic Type Elite Spell

5 10 1 5

Full: You Ride the Lightning to target. All adjacent foes are Blinded for 1...4...5 seconds. If your target is a foe, it is struck for 10...58...70 lightning damage. This spell has 25% armor penetration.

Concise: Deals 10...58...70 lightning damage. 25% armor penetration. Blinds all adjacent foes (1...4...5 seconds). You instantly move to your target. May target allies.

Air Magic	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Lightning damage	10	14	18	22	26	30	34	38	42	46	50	54	58	62	66	70	74	78	82	86	90	94
Blind	1	1	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	7

Acquisition

Signet of Capture:

• Factions
  • Kunvie Firewing (Unwaking Waters (explorable))
• Eye of the North
  • Thraexis Thundermaw (Grothmar Wardowns)

Notes

• The lightning-riding part of this skill behaves similarly to shadow stepping, as opposed to teleporting.
• Unlike shadow stepping skills, however, skills queued while using Ride the Lightning are unqueued after the spell is cast.
• This skill, Summon Spirits and Ebon Escape are the only non-assassin shadow stepping skills.
• This is the only shadow step to deal damage and is the fastest recharging shadow step.

Trivia

• The name of this skill is a reference to the Metallica album "Ride the Lightning", the title of which is a slang term for execution by electric chair.

Related articles

• Shadow stepping skills quick reference