Death's Retreat

Shadowstep away from your target and lose conditions. Poisons foes at your starting location. — In-game description

Death's Retreat

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Deadeye

Weapon

Rifle

Movement

Shadowstep

Sequence

 →  → 

Game link

API

41937

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0.25¼  

4

7

 

Death's Retreat

Shadowstep away from your target and lose conditions. Poisons foes at your starting location.

 Damage: 127 (0.3)^?

 Poison (8s): 268 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Conditions Removed: 1

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 180

 Distance: 600

 Combo Finisher: Leap

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Lotus Poison — Weaken targets when you poison them.
• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.
• Potent Poison — Poison you inflict has increased damage and duration. Other Deadly Arts traits apply additional stacks of poison.

Acrobatics

• Hard to Catch — Gain endurance when you shadowstep.
• 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 11, 2025	Increased the initiative cost from 6 to 7 in WvW only.
March 19, 2024	Increased the initiative cost from 6 to 7 in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased initiative cost from 5 to 6.
December 12, 2017	Reduced initiative cost of this skill from 5 to 4 in PvE only. Poison has been adjusted from 2 stacks for 4 seconds to 1 stack for 8 seconds.
November 07, 2017	Updated the description to indicate that this skill shadowsteps away from your current target. Improved the reliability of shadowstep in areas with complex terrain.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Death's Retreat has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.