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	Impulse
Line		Destruction Staff
Line Rank		38	Cost	3510 Magicka
Cast Time		Instant	Duration	–
Target		Area
Area		6 meters
Morphs
		Elemental Ring
		Pulsar Deals damage at a target location instead of around you.
Notes Magicka/Stamina Cost is based on a character of Level 50 160. Damage values are based on Max Magicka/Stamina 7958, Max Health 8744, and Weapon/Spell Damage 1037.

Impulse (Shock)

Impulse: Release a surge of elemental energy, dealing [4610 / 4660 / 4710 / 4762] Magic Damage to nearby enemies.

Elemental Ring: Range: 28 meters, Target: Ground.
Release a surge of elemental energy, dealing [4761 / 4813 / 4866 / 4917] Magic Damage to enemies at the target location.

Pulsar: Release a surge of elemental energy, dealing 4761 Magic Damage to nearby enemies and afflicting them with Minor Mangle, reducing their Max Health by 10% for [7 / 8 / 9 / 10] seconds.

Impulse (Fire)

Impulse (Frost)

Impulse causes a ring of elemental damage that hits all enemies within range. That damage will be either Flame Damage, Cold Damage, or Shock Damage depending on the type of staff you have equipped. The Pulsar morph reduces your targets' Maximum Health, which prevents them from healing, while Elemental Ring can be cast at a target location.

This spell changes its name and icon depending on the type of staff you have equipped. Specifically, Impulse becomes:

• Fire Impulse
• Frost Impulse
• Shock Impulse

Pulsar becomes:

• Flame Pulsar
• Frost Pulsar
• Storm Pulsar

and Elemental Ring becomes:

• Fire Ring
• Frost Ring
• Shock Ring

Notes

• Impulse can be cast repeatedly in quick succession, as its casting time is instant. This makes it particularly effective at clearing away any hostiles near the caster.
• Before Update 13, Elemental Ring dealt additional damage over time instead of being cast at a target area.
• The Wild Impulse set from Blackrose Prison will reduce the Magicka cost and add additional damage over time.

Patch Notes

 

1.1.2

• Increased the Magicka cost of Impulse and its morphs.
• If you have spent skill points in the Impulse ability, you will have those points returned to your overall skill point pool. They can be re-spent in this ability, or invested elsewhere.

 

1.2.3

• When an enemy is damaged first by this ability, the target(s) will now display a hit reaction.

 

1.5.2

• Reduced the radius of this ability to 6 meters from 8 meters. The tooltip for this ability also now lists the correct radius.
• Elemental Ring: Fixed an issue where this ability's damage over time wasn't triggering Destruction Expert.
• Pulsar: Lower ranks of this ability no longer remove the debuff created by higher ranks of Pulsar.

 

1.6.5

• Pulsar: This ability now applies the Minor Mangle buff to the target for 30 seconds, and the duration increases with each rank of the ability.

 

2.2.4

• Fixed an issue where the visual effect for the health reduction would not affect the enemy health bar backgrounds. The enemy health bar backgrounds will now shrink appropriately.

 

2.6.4

• Fixed an issue where Rank 1 of this ability could not critically strike.

 

2.7.5

• Adjusted the order of the Active Abilities in this skill line. They now unlock in the following order:
  • Force Shock
  • Wall of Elements
  • Destructive Touch
  • Weakness to Elements
  • Impulse
• Elemental Ring: This morph no longer adds a small Damage over Time component to the ability. Instead, it allows you to cast the ability at a ground-targeted location up to 28 meters away.

 

3.1.5

• Added new icons for each of the elemental variants of Destructive Touch, Wall of Elements, and Impulse.

 

3.2.5

• Elemental Ring: Fixed an issue where this morph was not causing alchemical poisons to proc.

 

4.0.5

• Pulsar: Fixed an issue where Rank 1 of Flame Pulsar was not applying Minor Mangle to enemies hit.

 

4.1.5

• Pulsar: Fixed an issue where this ability was only applying Minor Mangle to one target.

 

4.2.5

• Increased the damage done by this ability and its morphs by approximately 25%.

 

5.1.5

• Reduced the duration of the Minor Mangle this ability applied to 7 seconds from 30 seconds, which ranks up to 10 seconds. This morph now also increases the chance of applying the elemental type's status effect to 15%, instead of the base 5%.