Dust Strike

Spin your staff in the air, creating a vortex of dust around you that blinds enemies and reflects projectiles. — In-game description

Dust Strike

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Daredevil

Weapon

Staff

Game link

API

30775

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0.75¾  4  

Dust Strike

Spin your staff in the air, creating a vortex of dust around you that blinds enemies and reflects projectiles.

 Damage: 726 (1.8)^?

 Damage: 242 (0.6)^?

 Blindness (1s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Number of Hits: 3

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration: 1 second

 Reflect Missiles

 Radius: 180

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

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

Shadow Arts

• Cloaked in Shadow — Gaining stealth blinds nearby foes. Blinding a foe siphons health from them.

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.

Daredevil

• 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 damage seems to be based on 3 total hits of 0.6 power coefficient each, whereas the 1 second of blindness is actually applied 3 times.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	This skill now reflects projectiles and strikes foes in a circular area instead of in a frontal cone. Increased the total power coefficient from 0.6 to 1.8 in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased vulnerability stacks from 5 to 8.
April 19, 2016	This skill now applies 5 stacks of vulnerability per hit. Fixed a bug that caused this skill to strike more than once. Fixed a bug that caused this skill to blind for only 3 seconds instead of the full 5 seconds.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Dust Strike has been added to the game.