Breaching Strike

Burst. Strike your target and remove boons. Deal more damage if your target has no boons. — In-game description

Breaching Strike

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Specialization

Spellbreaker

Slot

Profession mechanic

Weapon

Dagger

Type

Burst

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

45252

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0.75¾  8  

Breaching Strike

Burst. Strike your target and remove boons. Deal more damage if your target has no boons.

 Damage: 917 (2.5)^?

 Damage: 440 (1.2)^?

 Damage: 484 (1.32)^?

 Damage Increase: 50%

 Damage Increase: 5%

 Boons Removed: 2

 Boons Removed: 3

 Combo Finisher: Leap

 Range: 450

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Related traits

Strength

• Brave Stride — Movement skills grant stability when used.
• Building Momentum — Burst skills restore endurance on hit.
• Berserker's Power — Gain increased strike damage when you use a burst skill; this damage increase is based on your adrenaline.

Arms

• Sundering Burst — Burst skills inflict vulnerability if they hit and inflict additional vulnerability if the attack is a critical hit. Can only occur once per interval per target for multihit burst skills.
• Burst Precision — Burst skills have an increased critical chance. Gain bonus critical-hit chance and ferocity for a duration when you hit with a burst skill. Duration is based on adrenaline spent.

Defense

• Cull the Weak — Deal increased strike damage to weakened foes. Burst skills inflict weakness. Can only occur once per interval per target for multihit burst skills.
• Adrenal Health — Gain health based on adrenaline spent.
• Cleansing Ire — Gain adrenaline when hit. Remove a condition when you hit with a burst skill, then remove an additional condition for every bar of adrenaline spent.

Tactics

• Marching Orders — Periodically gain Soldier's Focus. Hitting with a burst skill expends Soldier's Focus to grant might to nearby allies.

Discipline

• Warrior's Sprint — Run faster while wielding melee weapons, and deal increased strike damage while you have swiftness. Movement skills break immobilization when used.
• Versatile Power — Gain might on weapon swap. Burst skills gain reduced recharge.
• Heightened Focus — Gain quickness and recharge your Burst skills when you strike a foe that is below the health threshold. Gain increased outgoing healing when you strike with a Burst skill, based on adrenaline spent.
• Burst Mastery — Burst skills deal more damage, grant swiftness, and restore a portion of adrenaline spent.

Spellbreaker

• Loss Aversion — Removing boons from a foe deals damage and gives you adrenaline.
• Attacker's Insight — Gain Insight when disabling foes or removing boons. Full Counter refreshes all burst skills on hit. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt and fear.
• Enchantment Collapse — Removing a boon from a foe causes all nearby foes to lose additional boons.
• Magebane Tether — Hitting with a burst skill casts Magebane Tether on your target if they are within range.

Notes

• This skill is unaffected by Quickness and Dual Wielding.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 07, 2023	(Undocumented) Previous change has been reverted.
September 26, 2023	(Undocumented) Increased power coefficient from 2.5 to 2.75 in PvE only.
June 28, 2023	Fixed an issue that caused this skill to consume all adrenaline for spellbreakers.
February 14, 2023	Reduced bonus damage against enemies with no boons from 50% to 5% in PvP and WvW.
November 29, 2022	This skill now deals bonus damage to foes without boons.
October 18, 2022	Fixed an issue that caused this skill to do more damage than intended in WvW.
October 04, 2022	Increased power coefficient from 1.2 to 1.32 in PvP only.
September 13, 2022	Fixed an issue that caused the Breaching Strike tooltip to display incorrect damage when using the Burst Mastery trait.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Damage multiplier increased from 1.5 to 2.5.
June 28, 2022	Increased power coefficient from 0.9 to 1.2 in PvP and WvW.
July 07, 2020	Increased power coefficient from 0.7 to 0.9 in PvP and WvW.
March 17, 2020	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to do more damage than expected in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.2 to 0.7. Increased number of boons removed from 2 to 3.
March 28, 2018	Fixed a bug in which the skill facts displayed incorrectly in PvP and WvW.
March 27, 2018	Reduced damage by 20% in PvP and WvW.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Breaching Strike has been added to the game.