Kick (warrior utility skill)

This article is about the warrior utility skill. For other skills of the same name, see Kick.

Physical. Push your foe back with a kick. — In-game description

Kick

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Physical

Movement

Leap

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

14502

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0.5½  3  3  

Kick

Physical. Push your foe back with a kick.

 Damage: 266 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

 Knockback: 240

 Number of Targets: 3

 Bonus Defiance Break: 100

 Maximum Count: 3

 Count Recharge: 20 seconds

 Defiance Break: 150

 Range: 300

— In-game description

Related traits

Strength

• Brave Stride — Movement skills grant stability when used.
• Peak Performance — Deal increased strike damage. Physical skills further increase all outgoing strike damage for a period of time.
• Body Blow — Stuns, dazes, knockbacks, pulls, pushes, and launches inflict bleeding and weakness.
• Aggressive Onslaught — Gain quickness when you disable an enemy. While you have quickness, your movement speed is increased. This stacks with other movement speed increases.

Arms

• Opportunist — Gain fury and adrenaline when you immobilize or disable a foe.
• Unsuspecting Foe — Increased critical-hit chance against disabled or defiant foes. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Defense

• Merciless Hammer — Hammer and mace skills deal increased damage when striking a disabled or defiant foe. Gain adrenaline when you disable a foe. Disables include stun, taunt, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, and launch.
• Stalwart Strength — Gain stability when you disable a foe. Deal increased strike damage while you have stability.

Discipline

• Warrior's Sprint — Run faster while wielding melee weapons, and deal increased strike damage while you have swiftness. Movement skills break immobilization when used.

Spellbreaker

• Dispelling Force — Dazes, stuns, pulls, knockdowns, knockbacks, and launches remove boons.
• Attacker's Insight — Gain Insight when disabling foes or removing boons. Full Counter refreshes all burst skills on hit. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt and fear.

Bladesworn

• Swift as the Wind — Movement skills grant swiftness and increase flow rate.
• Unshakable Mountain — Using the final round of ammo on an ammunition skill grants barrier.
• Fierce as Fire — Gain increased strike damage for each round of ammunition spent.
• Lush Forest — Using the first round of ammo on an ammunition skill reduces the recharge of all warrior skills. Does not affect the recharge of Unsheathe Gunsaber, Sheathe Gunsaber, and Dragon Trigger.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 08, 2024	This skill now deals bonus defiance-bar damage.
June 27, 2023	Reduced ammunition recharge to 20 seconds in all game modes.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.01. Reduced ammo recharge from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill now uses the ammo system. Ammo count has been set to 3 with a 30-second count recharge. There is a 3-second recharge between uses.
April 19, 2016	The cooldown of this skill has been reduced from 20 seconds to 12 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Movement-speed adjustments no longer affect the intended travel distance.
April 15, 2014	This skill now correctly functions with Mobile Strikes.
June 25, 2013	Doubled the damage.
March 26, 2013	Now lunges toward the target slightly, extending the range.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Kick has been added to the game.

Trivia

• According to The Making of Guild Wars 2 book, Kick, being originally part of warrior's longbow weapon skills, proved to be so popular the developers decided to make it available as an utility skill.