Superior Battle Maul

Pounce on foes, dealing increased damage to foes who are in a downed state. — In-game description

Superior Battle Maul

Profession

Common

Parent skill

  Warclaw

Bundle

Warclaw

Type

Engage

Game link

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3  

Superior Battle Maul

Pounce on foes, dealing increased damage to foes who are in a downed state.

 Damage: 1,635 (2.0)^?

 Damage Increase vs. Downed Foes: 20%

 Number of Targets: 1

 Radius: 360

 Dismounts

— In-game description

Notes

• This skill is only available in WvW.
• Attempting to activate this skill in mid-air will do nothing and put this skill on cooldown.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 07, 2020	Reduced target cap from 3 to 1 in WvW. Warclaw Mastery 4: This mastery no longer causes Superior Battle Maul to finish downed enemies. Instead it causes Superior Battle Maul to deal 20% bonus damage to downed enemies.
March 26, 2019	This skill now prioritizes finishing downed enemies before inflicting damage on nearby targets. Battle Maul and Superior Battle Maul no longer add bleeding to affected enemies. Updated the tooltips on the warclaw skills Battle Maul and Superior Battle Maul to reflect the proper targets and damage.
March 06, 2019	Reduced the maximum number of targets on the warclaw's Battle Maul skill from 10 to 3. Reduced the damage of Battle Maul by 26% in WvW.
March 05, 2019	Superior Battle Maul has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Prior to the March 31, 2020 game update, up to three foes had been finished before dealing damage, suppressing kill contribution in general.
• Prior to the July 7, 2020 game update, the damage was dealt before finishing up to three foes, granting kill contribution (e.g. loot and world experience). However, since the finisher was bound to the damage part, this skill was not able to finish foes immediately after being downed as they were invunerable for one second.

See also

•   Battle Maul