Death Blossom

Dual Wield. Do an evasive attack over your target, striking nearby foes three times. Each hit causes bleeding. — In-game description

Death Blossom

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand dagger
Off hand dagger

Type

Dual Wield

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

13006

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0.5½  

4

5

 

Death Blossom

Dual Wield. Do an evasive attack over your target, striking nearby foes three times. Each hit causes bleeding.

 Damage (3x): 231 (0.63)^?

₃ Bleeding (15s): 990 Damage

₃ Bleeding (10s): 660 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Evade: 0.5½ seconds

 Combo Finisher: Whirl

 Range: 130

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Dagger Training — Gain bonus power, which is increased when wielding a dagger.
• Deadly Ambition — Inflict poison when striking a foe with a dual wield attack. Gain increased condition damage. Applies poison once per attack use.
• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Acrobatics

• Feline Grace — Gain vigor upon successfully evading an attack.
• Guarded Initiation — Movement skills grant resistance.
• Swindler's Equilibrium — Gain power and additional power when while wielding a sword or underwater spear. Successfully evading an attack while wielding a sword or underwater spear recharges Steal.
• Assassin's Reward — Heal yourself whenever you use a skill that uses initiative. Heal yourself for each point of initiative spent.
• Upper Hand — Gain initiative when you dodge, and gain initiative and regeneration when you evade an attack. Evading can only trigger this trait once per interval.

Trickery

• Lead Attacks — Increases all damage dealt per initiative spent. Steal gains reduced recharge time.
• Deadly Ambush — Stealing also applies bleeding. Bleeding you inflict deals more damage.

Daredevil

• Escapist's Fortitude — Gain health when you successfully evade an attack. Remove a condition whenever you evade an attack.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Bleed duration increased from 10 seconds to 15 seconds.
June 08, 2021	This skill no longer moves the player farther if they are under the effects of swiftness or superspeed.
July 07, 2020	The number of targets this skill can strike has been increased from 3 to 5.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased initiative cost from 4 to 5.
June 05, 2018	The tooltip for this skill has been updated to remove an inaccurate malice description that appeared if the deadeye specialization was equipped.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Extended evasion by 200 milliseconds toward the beginning of the ability.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: All skills categorized as dual-wield have received a 5% damage increase.
June 25, 2013	This trait now costs 4 initiative.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Death Blossom has been added to the game.

Trivia

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