Crossfire

Fire an arrow that bleeds your target. Attacks are stronger from behind or from the side or against defiant foes. — In-game description

Crossfire

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Weapon

Short bow

Game link

API

12470

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Crossfire

Fire an arrow that bleeds your target. Attacks are stronger from behind or from the side or against defiant foes.

 Damage: 183 (0.5)^?

 Damage: 98 (0.266)^?

 Bleeding (3s): 66 Damage

 Bleeding (2s): 44 Damage

 Bleeding (10.5½s): 33 Damage

 Range: 900

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)

— In-game description

Related traits

Marksmanship

• Farsighted — Ranger weapon skills deal increased strike damage. Damage is further increased for foes above the range threshold.

Skirmishing

• Hidden Barbs — Bleeding you inflict is more dangerous.
• Quick Draw — When swapping weapons, gain quickness. The next ranger weapon skill you use will recharge faster.
• Light on your Feet — Damage and condition duration are increased after dodging or using a ranger skill that evades. Short bow skills pierce and gain recharge reduction, and their attacks from behind or while flanking or against defiant foes are improved.

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 Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Crossfire.

• Base attack speed is approximately once every 0.52 seconds, and once every 0.36 seconds with quickness.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	All effects that benefit when the player strikes from the flank or from behind now always apply their benefits when striking defiant foes.
June 30, 2022	Increased damage multiplier from 0.4 to 0.5 in PvE only. Bleed duration when not flanking increased from 1.5 seconds to 2 seconds in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.4 to 0.266.
October 19, 2016	Fixed a bug that caused this ability to give the lower bleeding value regardless of positioning.
October 18, 2016	This ability will now bleed foes for 1.5 seconds when they're struck from the front.
June 25, 2013	Decreased the range to 900.
December 14, 2012	Increased the velocity of arrows fired from Short Bow and Longbow skills by 30%.
October 07, 2012	Increased casting time by 40 milliseconds. This was done to fix some glitches in the animation that caused problems with this skill.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Crossfire has been added to the game.

Trivia

• Crossfire's name has gone back and forth between being spelt with and without a space in development.
  • Crossfire―August 2012-Present
  • Cross Fire―March 2011-August 2012
  • Crossfire―Unknown-August 2012