Barrage

Barrage the target area with a hail of arrows that cripple. — In-game description

Animation

Barrage

20.25¼  20    

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Weapon

Longbow

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Barrage the target area with a hail of arrows that cripple.

  Damage (12x): 2,316 (6)^?

  Damage (12x): 1,764 (4.572)^?

 ₁₂ Cripple (1s): -50% Movement Speed

  Number of Targets: 5

  Radius: 360

  Range: 1,500

— In-game description ^[?]

Related traits

Marksmanship

• Lead the Wind — Your longbow and harpoon-gun skills pierce and recharge faster. Striking foes beyond the range threshold grants boons.

Soulbeast

• Oppressive Superiority — Deal increased damage to foes at a lower health percentage than you. Conditions you apply to foes at a lower health percentage than you last longer.

Notes

• The arrows do not count as projectiles. They are merely a visual effect.
• This channeled skill will be interrupted if you move while the progress bar is still active (first 2.75 sec).
• The 5 enemies nearest to the targeted point on the ground (AoE center) will each receive 12 hits of 141 damage at intervals of around 0.6 sec. If one or more of them die, the next nearest enemies to the center of the AoE will take the remaining hits.
• Each successive hit will prolong the crippled by 1 sec, for a total of 12 sec.
• The damage coefficient of 6 is for the 12 hits. Each hit has a coefficient of 0.5.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.5 to 0.381.
July 16, 2019	Reduced recharge from 30 second to 20 seconds. Lowered cripple duration from 1.5 seconds to 1 second. Increased damage by 25%. Damage floaters for this skill now show total damage instead of damage per hit.
May 08, 2018	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from being targeted in certain areas blocked by line of sight.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Ranger Longbow skill range is now 1500.
September 09, 2014	Reduced cast time by 0.6 seconds.
October 15, 2013	This skill will no longer have reduced condition duration when traited with Eagle Eye.
June 25, 2013	Increased the cripple duration by 50%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Barrage has been added to the game.

Trivia

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