Malicious Deadly Strike

Stealth Attack. Attack while in stealth, bleeding and weakening your target. Consumes all malice to deal bonus damage if it strikes your mark. — In-game description

Malicious Deadly Strike

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Deadeye

Weapon

Spear

Type

Stealth Attack

Game link

API

50417

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0.5½  1  

Malicious Deadly Strike

Stealth Attack. Attack while in stealth, bleeding and weakening your target. Consumes all malice to deal bonus damage if it strikes your mark.

 Damage: 440 (1.2)^?

 Bonus Damage per Malice: 15%

 Bleeding (10s): 220 Damage

 Weakness (4s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

 Number of Targets: 3

 Range: 150

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Even the Odds — Apply vulnerability when you steal. Gain might when you hit with a stealth attack.
• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Critical Strikes

• Sundering Shade — Stealth Attack skills inflict vulnerability and grant fury upon successfully hitting foes.

Shadow Arts

• Hidden Thief — Stealing inflicts blindness. Stealth Attacks inflict weakness. Cannot affect the same target more than once per interval.
• Shadow Siphoning — Stealth attacks siphon health if they hit. Cannot siphon the same target more than once per interval.
• Rending Shade — Steal boons from enemies you strike with stealth attacks. Striking a boonless foe with a stealth attack inflicts fear on nearby foes.

Trickery

• Deadly Ambush — Stealing also applies bleeding. Bleeding you inflict deals more damage.

Deadeye

• Malicious Intent — Marking a target or striking your mark with a stealth attack will immediately grant malice.

Notes

Anomaly:

When Malicious Deadly Strike was added to the game and Deadly Strike was improved, Malicious Deadly Strike retained Deadly Strike's former power coefficient -- making it perform worse than its non-Deadeye counterpart with 4 or less malice (and merely 5% better at 5 malice).

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 08, 2018	Malicious Deadly Strike has been added to the game.