Debilitating Arc

Strike enemies in front of you and roll backward, breaking immobilizing effects. Gain access to Helmet Breaker. — In-game description

Debilitating Arc

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Daredevil

Weapon

Staff

Movement

Retreat

Sequence

 → 

Game link

API

30520

“

4  

Debilitating Arc

Strike enemies in front of you and roll backward, breaking immobilizing effects. Gain access to Helmet Breaker.

 Damage: 404 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 202 (0.5)^?

 Cripple (6s): -50% Movement Speed

 Condition Removed

 Number of Targets: 3

 Distance: 400

 Evade: 0.5½ seconds

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• 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.

Daredevil

• Escapist's Fortitude — Gain health when you successfully evade an attack. Remove a condition whenever you evade an attack.
• Staff Master — While wielding a staff, gain endurance for each initiative point spent. Gain bonus power, which is increased when wielding a staff.

Notes

• The evade will occur even if a foe is not struck with the skill.
• If you jump shortly after using the skill, you will roll backward midair. This does not change the distance traveled.
• Swaps to Helmet Breaker for about 3 seconds after use.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 08, 2024	Reduced the initiative cost from 5 to 4 in PvP and WvW.
November 28, 2023	This skill now grants access to Helmet Breaker for a duration of time.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.5. WvW will now use the PvP initiative cost of 5.
December 03, 2019	Reduced initiative cost from 6 to 5 in PvP only.
October 30, 2019	Fixed an issue that prevented players from rolling backward when they used this skill while in the air. The initiative cost of this skill has been increased from 4 to 6 in PvP only.
November 22, 2016	Fixed a bug that allowed the user to gain evasion without paying the initiative cost.
January 26, 2016	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from functioning with Assassin's Reward.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Debilitating Arc has been added to the game.