Head Shot

This article is about the pistol skill for the thief. For the pistol skill used during Southsun Survival, see Head Shot (Southsun Survival).

Daze your foe with a head shot. — In-game description

Head Shot

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Off hand pistol

Game link

API

13012

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Head Shot

Daze your foe with a head shot.

 Damage: 367 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 92 (0.25)^?

 Daze (2s): Unable to use skills.

 Daze (0.25¼s): Unable to use skills.

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

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

• Pressure Striking — Enemies you interrupt are inflicted with torment. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Lead Attacks — Increases all damage dealt per initiative spent. Steal gains reduced recharge time.

Daredevil

• Impacting Disruption — Enemies that you interrupt suffer a pulmonary impact. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Notes

• Though not listed on the tooltip, the Daze effect does 200 Defiance Break in PvE and 25 in WvW/PvP.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Damage multiplier increased from 0.25 to 1.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Increased the daze caused by this skill from 0.25 seconds to 2 seconds in PvE only.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Head Shot has been added to the game.