Lead the Wind

Your longbow and harpoon-gun skills pierce and recharge faster. Point-Blank Shot grants boons. — In-game description

Lead the Wind

Specialization

Marksmanship (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Lead the Wind

Your longbow and harpoon-gun skills pierce and recharge faster. Point-Blank Shot grants boons.

 Range Threshold: 1,200

 Swiftness (10s): +33% Movement Speed

 Quickness (5s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Quickness (20.5½s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Targets per Missile: 5

 Recharge Reduced: 20%

 Pierces

 Cyclone Bow Pierces ()

— In-game description

Notes

	Skill	Traited recharge
Longbow	Rapid Fire (PvE)	8	→	6.4
	Rapid Fire (WvW, PvP)	10	→	8
	Hunter's Shot	12	→	9.6
	Point-Blank Shot	15	→	12
	Barrage (WvW)	5	→	4
	Barrage (PvE, PvP)	20	→	16
Harpoon gun	Coral Shot	10	→	8
	Feeding Frenzy	10	→	8
	Mercy Shot	12	→	9.6
	Ink Blast	18	→	14.4

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 28, 2025	Visions of Eternity release: This trait now causes cyclone-bow skills to pierce. (Undocumented) Removed the unused 15-second cooldown.
June 25, 2024	This trait no longer grants boons when striking a target at long range and now grants boons when using Point-Blank Shot.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: This trait no longer grants swiftness when performing a projectile combo. Instead, it grants swiftness for 10 seconds and quickness for 5 seconds (2.5 seconds in PvP and WvW) when striking with an attack from beyond 1,200 range. This effect has a 15-second cooldown.
October 02, 2018	The attack speed when using the longbow is no longer increased. Piercing is now applied to harpoon gun skills, in addition to the current piercing functionality. Gain swiftness when using a projectile combo finisher.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Fixed a bug that was preventing some longbow skills from displaying all relevant skill facts for this trait.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from updating longbow skills with the Pierces skill fact.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Fixed a bug so that this trait no longer has its piercing information displayed on short-bow skills.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Lead the Wind has been added to the game.