Assassin's Signet

Signet Passive: Grants increased power. Signet Active: Power is massively increased for a short duration. — In-game description

Assassin's Signet

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Signet

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

13046

Gallery
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Assassin's Signet

Signet Passive: Grants increased power.
Signet Active: Power is massively increased for a short duration.

 Passive Power Increase: 180 Power

 Active Power Increase (5s): 540 Power

— In-game description

Related traits

Critical Strikes

• Signets of Power — Signets grant initiative.

Deadeye

• Payback — When Renewing Gaze triggers, this trait restores a portion of the recharge time needed by your healing, utility, and elite skills. Excludes racial skills.

Notes

• Increases Power by 2 * (10 + level)
• At level 80, actively using the signet will cause you to gain an additional 360 Power.
• The passive and active power increase of this skill will stack if the skill is fully recharged while the active is in use. For example, activating the skill and reducing the recharge via  Improvisation.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 17, 2020	Fixed a bug that caused this signet to grant its old bonus damage increase in addition to the bonus power.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 20 seconds to 30 seconds.
May 08, 2018	The cooldown of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the lower 20-second cooldown in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP and WvW.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Reduced the recharge from 40 seconds to 30 seconds. The active skill of this signet now triples the Power bonus of the passive for 5 seconds
February 22, 2017	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 45 seconds to 40 seconds.
August 06, 2013	The buff provided when this skill is activated will now properly display the remaining number of charges.
April 30, 2013	Increased passive stat bonus by 100%.
January 28, 2013	The number of uses on this skill's effect will now decrease if an attack lands or if the attack is negated by Blind, Block, Evade, Obstructed, or Invulnerable.
October 22, 2012	This skill has been updated to grant 15% damage for 5 attacks rather than 50% damage for one attack.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Assassin's Signet has been added to the game.