Disabling Shot (thief short bow skill)

Leap away from your foe while firing a crippling shot. — In-game description

Disabling Shot

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Short bow

Movement

Retreat

Game link

API

13083

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0.25¼  

4

5

 

Disabling Shot

Leap away from your foe while firing a crippling shot.

 Damage: 183 (0.5)^?

 Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed

 Evade: 0.5½ seconds

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Range: 900

— 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.

Notes

• The leap's maximum range is roughly 240 units.
• You can use this skill even when facing away from your target.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Updated the description of this skill to better reflect its function. (Competitive split) Increased initiative cost from 4 to 5.
November 17, 2015	This skill will now always move you directly away from your target.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Movement-speed adjustments no longer affect the intended travel distance.
July 01, 2014	Fixed an issue that caused the character to briefly move back toward the target when firing at an enemy behind the thief.
April 15, 2014	Reduced the length of this skill's evasion component from 100% of the skill's duration to 64% of the skill's duration - an overall reduction of .3 seconds. Evasion is still applied immediately upon using the skill. Fixed an issue that caused the player to stop moving momentarily when using this skill on opponents behind the thief.
October 22, 2012	This skill can now be fired continuously at targets behind the player without the ability jumping them back toward the target. This skill now also has a cost when firing at targets behind the player.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Disabling Shot has been added to the game.