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: 424 (1.05)^?

 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
October 08, 2024	Increased the power coefficient per hit from 0.2 to 0.35 in PvP and WvW.
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.