Lightning Strike of Destruction

Lightning Strike of Destruction

Job	Ninja
Type	Offensive (Magical)
Target	Ground
Element	Wind
Range	9 cells
Max level	10
SP cost	12 → 48
Catalyst	1 Wind Stone
Requires	Wind Blade Lv3

Lightning Strike of Destruction is a Wind-property ground-targeted area magic skill of the Ninja that calls down lightning bolts over a chosen area.

Overview

This skill targets a ground cell and saturates the surrounding area with Wind magic. The damaged area expands as the skill is leveled, making it the Ninja's primary Wind area-of-effect tool against grouped enemies.

Mechanics

Lightning bolts strike across the target area, hitting every enemy in range.

Damage formula: each hit deals (50 + 25 × SkillLv)% MATK.

Area of effect: Lv1–4 cover a 5×5 area, Lv5–8 cover a 7×7 area, and Lv9–10 cover a 9×9 area.

Effect: when several bolts would stack on the same cell, only one of them damages enemies on that cell (bolts do not multi-hit a single tile).

Leveling

Level	Damage per hit	Area	Cast time	After-cast delay	SP cost
1	75% MATK	5×5	1.0 s	1.0 s	12
2	100% MATK	5×5	1.5 s	1.4 s	16
3	125% MATK	5×5	2.0 s	1.8 s	20
4	150% MATK	5×5	2.5 s	2.2 s	24
5	175% MATK	7×7	3.0 s	2.6 s	28
6	200% MATK	7×7	3.5 s	3.0 s	32
7	225% MATK	7×7	4.0 s	3.4 s	36
8	250% MATK	7×7	4.5 s	3.8 s	40
9	275% MATK	9×9	5.0 s	4.2 s	44
10	300% MATK	9×9	5.5 s	4.6 s	48

Cast time follows (0.5 + 0.5 × SkillLv) seconds; after-cast delay follows (0.6 + 0.4 × SkillLv) seconds.

Requirements

• Wind Blade Lv3

Catalysts

• 1 Wind Stone per cast

Notes

• Being a Wind skill, casting it applies the Combustion Gale haze to the caster.
• The Cast Time of this skill (and the Ninja's other Wind skills) can be reduced, and its damage raised, by the Hydro Gale haze.