Barbed Spear

This article is about the thief skill. For the unimplemented necromancer skill, see Barbed Spear (unimplemented).

Swing your spear. If your enemy is far away, throw your spear instead. — In-game description

Barbed Spear

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Game link

API

73145

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0.75¾  

Barbed Spear

Swing your spear. If your enemy is far away, throw your spear instead.

 Damage: 138 (0.375)^?

 Range Threshold: 240

 Bleeding (20.25¼s): 50 Damage

 Range: 240

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Trickery

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

Notes

• In melee, this attack hits twice.
• The thrown spear has a range of 900 units.

Trivia

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

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2024	Barbed Spear was available during the Spear Beta Event.