Cloak and Dagger

Stab your foe and vanish in stealth, leaving them vulnerable. — In-game description

Cloak and Dagger

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Off hand dagger

Game link

API

16432

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0.5½  5  

Cloak and Dagger

Stab your foe and vanish in stealth, leaving them vulnerable.

 Damage: 587 (1.6)^?

 Damage: 458 (1.25)^?

 Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.

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

 Range: 130

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Dagger Training — Gain bonus power, which is increased when wielding a dagger.
• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Critical Strikes

• Hidden Killer — Gain bonus critical-hit chance while stealthed. This bonus lingers for a short duration after you've been revealed.

Shadow Arts

• Merciful Ambush — Heal when you enter or exit stealth. Stealth yourself and your target when reviving an ally. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Shadow's Embrace — Remove conditions when you enter or exit stealth. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Meld with Shadows — Gain superspeed when you enter or exit stealth.
• Leeching Venoms — Venom utility skills siphon life from struck foes. Gain stacks of Spider Venom when you enter or exit stealth. Siphoning can only occur once per strike.
• Cloaked in Shadow — Gaining stealth blinds nearby foes. Blinding a foe siphons health from them.
• Cover of Shadow — Gain protection when you enter or exit stealth. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Shadow's Rejuvenation — Gain initiative when you enter or exit stealth.

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.

Specter

• Panaku's Ambition — Gain barrier when you strike foes with a stealth attack. When you apply stealth to allies you also grant them barrier. This effect can only be received once and will reset when stealth is removed.

Notes

• Vulnerability is applied before the damage.
• Only applies stealth when the attack actually hits and the player is not revealed.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 29, 2022	Increased power coefficient from 1.25 to 1.6 in PvE only.
May 08, 2018	The initiative cost of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the lower 5-initiative cost in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Reduced the initiative cost from 6 to 5 in PvP and WvW.
February 22, 2017	The vulnerability inflicted by this skill has been increased from 3 stacks to 5 stacks.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This ability has been combined and its damage normalized. Damage of this ability has decreased by approximately 17% in PvE and increased by 25% in PvP.
April 30, 2013	Now functions with the Hidden Killer trait.
February 26, 2013	The player can no longer use this ability stack stealth by attacking WvW walls.
November 15, 2012	This skill's damage has been reduced by 33% in PvP only.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Cloak and Dagger has been added to the game.