Escape

Shoot a harpoon and retreat, leaving a trail of poison. — In-game description

Escape

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Harpoon gun

Movement

Retreat

Game link

API

13074

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

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0.5½  4  

Escape

Shoot a harpoon and retreat, leaving a trail of poison.

 Missile Damage: 488 (1.33)^?

 Damage: 121 (0.33)^?

 Poison (4s): 134 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Number of Targets: 3

 Duration: 4 seconds

 Interval: 1 second

 Radius: 120

 Combo Field: Poison

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Lotus Poison — Weaken targets when you poison them.
• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.
• Potent Poison — Poison you inflict has increased damage and duration. Other Deadly Arts traits apply additional stacks of poison.

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.

Notes

• The retreating component of the skill only happens after the cast time is finished.
• This is one of the very few skills in the game that both creates a combo field and interacts with it.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 08, 2018	The projectile damage of this skill has been increased by 33%, and pulses of the poison clouds will now deal physical damage at half the original damage per pulse in addition to poison. Its poison duration has increased from 2 seconds to 4 seconds per pulse.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Increased the poison duration from 1 second to 2 seconds. Movement-speed adjustments no longer affect the intended travel distance.
April 15, 2014	Updated the poison skill fact to scale with the Potent Poison trait.
December 14, 2012	This skill now creates a poison field with art changes to reflect this.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Escape has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.
• The skill icon for Escape is identical to the icon for thief spear autoattack, step 3, Poison Tip Strike.