Lightning Rod

Lightning RodAttack, AoE, Projectile, Sustained, Lightning, Duration
Tier: 1
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (4-32) Mana
Attack Speed: 120% of base
Attack Damage: (26-94)% of baseFire an arrow that drops from above, creating a Lightning burst. The arrow remains in the ground, and any Chaining Lightning beams can Chain to it. When Chained to, the arrows charge up for a brief period before releasing another Lightning burst. The Lightning Arrow Skill skips this delay, causing bursts immediately.
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
+(0.02-0.4) metres to Burst radiusSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.

Acquisition
Drop restricted
It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gem/SkillGemLightningRod

Lightning Rod is a lightning attack skill which requires a bow.

Recommended support gems

The following support gems are recommendations by GGG as listed in-game, and do not necessarily reflect optimal combinations or the views of the wiki.

Gem tier	Support gems
I	Acceleration	Magnified Effect	Scattershot
II	Lightning Penetration	Longshot	Primal Armament
III	Elemental Focus	Lightning Exposure	Neural Overload

Alternate skill effects

Lightning Rod has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description

Version history

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Version	Changes
0.2.0e	Lightning Rod now deals 26-94% of Attack Damage at Gem levels 1-20 (previously 20-72%). Now has a Maximum Arrow duration of 20 seconds (previously 12).
0.2.0	Many Skills have had their base damage and/or damage growth per level rebalanced. Most of these changes are not specifically mentioned below as the changes are too widespread. The mana cost for all Attacks, Marks and Warcries has been reduced, most notably at higher Gem levels. Lightning Rod Arrow now disappears after being Chained to 6 times at all Gem levels (previously 8-14 times at Gem levels 1-20). Arrows now take 1 second to charge up before releasing a Lightning Burst when chained to. Lightning Arrows that chain to Lightning Rod arrows cause the pulse to happen instantly instead of needing to charge up.
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.