Pure Strike (trait)

This article is about the trait. For the skill, see Pure Strike.

Deal increased critical-hit damage. This bonus is doubled against boonless foes. — In-game description

Pure Strike

Specialization

Spellbreaker (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Pure Strike

Deal increased critical-hit damage. This bonus is doubled against boonless foes.

 Critical Damage Increase: 70.5½%

 Critical Damage Increase: 7%

 Boonless Critical Damage Increase: 15%

 Boonless Critical Damage Increase: 14%

— In-game description

Notes

• Despite the description, this trait does not increase your critical damage stat, rather the damage dealt by critical hits by 7% (or 14%), which makes the trait much stronger than described.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Damage bonus increased from 7%/14% to 7.5%/15%.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Pure Strike has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this trait.