Call of the Wild

This article is about the ranger skill. For other uses, see Call of the Wild (disambiguation).

Daze and weaken nearby enemies. Grant fury, might, and swiftness to yourself and nearby allies. — In-game description

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Call of the Wild

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Weapon

Warhorn

Game link

API

12621

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Call of the Wild

Daze and weaken nearby enemies. Grant fury, might, and swiftness to yourself and nearby allies.

 Fury (12s): +25% Critical Chance

 Fury (6s): +20% Critical Chance

 Fury (10s): +20% Critical Chance

₆ Might (12s): 180 Condition Damage, 180 Power

₈ Might (6s): 240 Condition Damage, 240 Power

 Swiftness (12s): +33% Movement Speed

 Swiftness (10s): +33% Movement Speed

 Weakness (5s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

 Daze: 2 seconds

 Daze: 1 second

 Number of Targets: 5

 Allied Target Radius: 900

 Enemy Target Radius: 240

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Defiance Break: 200

 Defiance Break: 100

— In-game description

An image of a wolf can be seen when cast.

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Related traits

Marksmanship

• Moment of Clarity — Gain an attack of opportunity for you and your pet on interrupting a foe. Daze and stun durations that you inflict last longer. This trait can only grant an attack of opportunity against enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Predator's Onslaught — You and your pet deal increased strike damage to disabled, defiant, or movement-impaired foes. Affected conditions are stun, taunt, daze, cripple, fear, immobilize, and chilled.
• Remorseless — Regain opening strike whenever you gain fury. Opening strike deals more damage.

Skirmishing

• Vicious Quarry — Fury grants ferocity and additional increased critical strike chance. When struck while below the health threshold, gain fury.

Nature Magic

• Bountiful Hunter — You deal increased strike damage for each boon affecting you. Your pet deals increased strike damage for each boon affecting it.
• Fortifying Bond — When you gain a boon, it is shared with your pet.
• Windborne Notes — Grant nearby allies regeneration when you use a warhorn skill. Heal allies when you grant them regeneration.

Beastmastery

• Two-Handed Training — Greatsword and underwater spear skills deal more damage and recharge faster. Gain fury when you disable a foe.

Druid

• Blood Moon — Daze enemies when you become a celestial avatar. Inflict bleeding on enemies you immobilize or disable.

Soulbeast

• Furious Strength — You deal increased strike damage while you have fury.
• Twice as Vicious — Disabling a foe increases your damage and condition damage for a short duration.
• 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.

Untamed

• Debilitating Blows — Disabling a foe applies conditions to that foe based on your current state. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Enhancing Impact — Disabling a foe grants you boons based on your current state. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 18, 2023	Increased boon durations from 10 seconds to 12 seconds in PvE only.
May 02, 2023	Increased might stacks from 6 to 8 in PvP and WvW.
February 14, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 24 seconds.
June 28, 2022	Fury: Critical chance bonus increased from 20% to 25% in PvE only.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
May 11, 2021	Reduced animation aftercast time by approximately 0.5 seconds. The pet's next few attacks are no longer unblockable. This skill now dazes and weakens nearby enemies when cast. Daze duration is 2 seconds in PvE and WvW, and 1 second in PvP.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Skills and traits that grant the unblockable status now use a unified effect. This effect is intensity stacking, and stacks are lost whenever attacks hit or miss. Single strikes that hit multiple foes only consume 1 stack. Skills that grant the unblockable status for a duration have been updated to use a number of stacks instead. This skill now uses the new unblockable effect.
July 16, 2019	The unblockable boon provided by this skill now lasts for the next 3 attacks within 5 seconds instead of all attacks within the next 4 seconds.
December 11, 2018	This skill's fury duration has been split between game modes and will now use a 6-second duration in PvP while keeping its 10-second duration in other game modes.
October 02, 2018	Increased the radius of this skill from 750 to 900.
May 08, 2018	Reduced the durations of fury, swiftness, and might granted by this skill from 15 seconds to 10 seconds. Might granted by this skill has been increased from 3 stacks to 6 stacks.
November 07, 2017	This skill now grants its unblockable enhancement to a ranger in Beastmode.
October 18, 2016	This ability now also causes a ranger's pet to become unblockable for the next 4 seconds.
September 29, 2015	Updated this skill to grant 3 stacks of might for 15 seconds, increased from 1 stack of might for 15 seconds.
July 28, 2015	Increased the radius to 750.
January 27, 2015	The cooldown of this skill has been reduced from 35 seconds to 30 seconds.
April 15, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused pets to think that using this skill was a hostile action.
December 10, 2013	Removed the unnecessary range fact.
July 23, 2013	This skill is now a blast finisher.
November 15, 2012	The Wilderness Survival trait Off-Hand Training now applies to this skill.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Call of the Wild has been added to the game.

Trivia

• If three or more rangers use the skill at the same time, a Lunar Wolf is summoned. This is a reference to the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt and meme.
• This skill's name and icon are references to The Call of the Wild, by Jack London.