Crippling Shot (thief harpoon gun skill)

This article is about the harpoon gun skill. For the short bow skill, see Disabling Shot (thief short bow skill).

Fire a harpoon that cripples your foe. — In-game description

Crippling Shot

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Harpoon gun

Game link

API

13075

This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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Crippling Shot

Fire a harpoon that cripples your foe.

 Damage: 642 (1.75)^?

 Cripple (5s): -50% Movement Speed

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Critical Strikes

• Deadly Aim — Your pistol and harpoon gun attacks now pierce and have increased strike damage.

Acrobatics

• 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
November 28, 2023	Guild Wars 2 Wiki note: With an undocumented update at an unknown date, this skill was renamed from Disabling Shot to Crippling Shot
May 08, 2018	The damage of this skill has been increased by 75%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Disabling Shot has been added to the game.