Lightning damage

Lightning damage is an elemental damage type that is caused by most Air Magic skills, Channeling Magic skills, wands and staves linked to the Air Magic, Channeling Magic and Spawning Power attributes and any martial weapon with a Shocking upgrade component.

Although lightning damage has no inherent effects, many Air Magic skills have 25% armor penetration.

Generally, Lightning damage skills tend to focus on dealing large damage to single targets, and feature no damage over time effects.

In PvE, it is rare for one to be specifically requested to wield lightning damage, with most players opting for Fire damage to deal damage, however in some cases it is more effective to use lightning damage. Within PvP, lightning damage typically comes as a side effect from players wielding support skills such as Blinding Surge, however it is also present within some spikes, sometimes as the primary damage source.

Equipment that protects against lightning damage

 * Armor
 * Stormbound Insignia
 * Aeromancer Insignia
 * Inscriptions
 * Focus item or Shield Inscriptions
 * [[Image:Inscription focus items or shields.png|19px]] "Riders on the Storm"

Skills that protect against lightning damage

 * Stances
 * - also provides energy whenever lightning damage is taken

Skills that are involved with lightning damage

 * Hex spells
 * - foe has immunity from all damage except lightning.


 * Enchantment spells
 * - increases damage of a weapon that deals lightning damage (e.g. with shocking modifier).

Skills that inflict lightning damage

 * Enchantment spells
 * Hex spells
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 * Item spells
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 * Skills
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Monsters specifically resistant to lightning damage

 * Stone Elementals
 * Gargoyle
 * Flash Gargoyles
 * Resurrect Gargoyles
 * Shatter Gargoyles

Monsters specifically vulnerable to lightning damage

 * Grawl
 * Barbed Grawl
 * Grawl Crones
 * Grawls (Shiverpeaks)
 * Mighty Grawl
 * Forgotten
 * Enchanted Hammer (Prophecies)
 * Enchanted Sword (Prophecies)
 * River Drakes
 * Tengu
 * Avicara Ardents
 * Avicara Braves
 * Avicara Fierces
 * Avicara Guiles
 * Avicara Wises
 * Caromi Tengu Braves
 * Caromi Tengu Elites
 * Caromi Tengu Fierces
 * Caromi Tengu Scouts
 * Caromi Tengu Seers
 * Caromi Tengu Wilds