Bola Shot

Fire a set of immobilizing bolas at your foe. — In-game description

Bola Shot

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand pistol

Game link

API

13008

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0.5½  4  

Bola Shot

Fire a set of immobilizing bolas at your foe.

 Damage: 92 (0.25)^?

₅ Vulnerability (3s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage

 Immobilize (10.5½s): Unable to move.

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Range: 900

— In-game description

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on the previous name of this skill.

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Panic Strike — Immobilizing a foe poisons them. Striking a foe below the health threshold immobilizes them.
• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Critical Strikes

• Deadly Aim — Your pistol and harpoon gun attacks now pierce and have increased strike damage.

Acrobatics

• Assassin's Reward — Heal yourself whenever you use a skill that uses initiative. Heal yourself for each point of initiative spent.

Trickery

• Lead Attacks — Increases all damage dealt per initiative spent. Steal gains reduced recharge time.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: This skill has been renamed Bola Shot. Its description and icon have been updated.
May 16, 2017	This skill has been unsplit and now applies immobilize for 1.5 seconds in all game modes.
February 22, 2017	The duration of immobilize inflicted by this skill has been increased from 1 second to 1.5 seconds in PvP only.
April 19, 2016	Reduced the aftercast delay of this skill by 0.16 seconds.
October 15, 2013	This skill now applies 1 second of immobilize. Reduced the number of vulnerability stacks from 10 to 5. Increased the initiative cost from 3 to 4.
June 25, 2013	Reduced the aftercast by .4 seconds. Decreased the vulnerability duration to 3 seconds. Increased to 10 stacks for vulnerability.
November 15, 2012	This skill now allows players to activate other skills sooner after the ability ends.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Bola Shot has been added to the game.