Flanking Dive

Evade your foe and then strike, dealing increased damage from the side or behind. — In-game description

Flanking Dive

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Game link

API

13069

This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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0.75¾  3  

Flanking Dive

Evade your foe and then strike, dealing increased damage from the side or behind.

 Damage: 642 (1.75)^?

 Damage When Flanking: 963 (2.625)^?

 Evade: 0.75¾ seconds

 Range: 150

— In-game description

Related traits

Acrobatics

• Feline Grace — Gain vigor upon successfully evading an attack.
• Swindler's Equilibrium — Gain power and additional power when while wielding a sword or underwater spear. Successfully evading an attack while wielding a sword or underwater spear recharges Steal.
• Assassin's Reward — Heal yourself whenever you use a skill that uses initiative. Heal yourself for each point of initiative spent.
• Upper Hand — Gain initiative when you dodge, and gain initiative and regeneration when you evade an attack. Evading can only trigger this trait once per interval.

Trickery

• Lead Attacks — Increases all damage dealt per initiative spent. Steal gains reduced recharge time.

Daredevil

• Escapist's Fortitude — Gain health when you successfully evade an attack. Remove a condition whenever you evade an attack.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 08, 2018	This skill no longer inflicts vulnerability and instead deals bonus damage if the target is attacked from the side or from behind. Movement has been changed so that if the thief is not in melee range or is behind or to the side of the target, the thief will now charge straight forward instead of strafing around the enemy.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill has been renamed to Flanking Dive, to eliminate confusion with similarly named skills and traits.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Movement-speed adjustments no longer affect the intended travel distance.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Flanking Strike has been added to the game.