Malicious Ashen Assault

Stealth Attack. Attack foes in front of you with a series of strikes, making them vulnerable. The final strike inflicts damaging conditions. If this skill follows a Finisher skill, it grants initiative. Consumes all malice when striking your mark to inflict torment and increase the damage dealt. — In-game description

Malicious Ashen Assault

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Deadeye

Weapon

Spear

Type

Stealth Attack

Game link

API

72924

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10.5½  

Malicious Ashen Assault

Stealth Attack. Attack foes in front of you with a series of strikes, making them vulnerable. The final strike inflicts damaging conditions. If this skill follows a Finisher skill, it grants initiative. Consumes all malice when striking your mark to inflict torment and increase the damage dealt.

 Damage (6x): 882 (2.4)^?

 Damage (6x): 552 (1.5)^?

₅ Vulnerability (8s): +5% Incoming Damage, +5% Incoming Condition Damage

₃ Bleeding (7s): 462 Damage

₂ Bleeding (7s): 308 Damage

₃ Poison (7s): 704 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

₂ Poison (7s): 469 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Initiative: 4

 Initiative: 3

 Number of Targets: 3

 Range: 240

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Lotus Poison — Weaken targets when you poison them.
• Even the Odds — Apply vulnerability when you steal. Gain might when you hit with a stealth attack.
• 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

• Sundering Shade — Stealth Attack skills inflict vulnerability and grant fury upon successfully hitting foes.

Shadow Arts

• Hidden Thief — Stealing inflicts blindness. Stealth Attacks inflict weakness. Cannot affect the same target more than once per interval.
• Shadow Siphoning — Stealth attacks siphon health if they hit. Cannot siphon the same target more than once per interval.
• Rending Shade — Steal boons from enemies you strike with stealth attacks. Striking a boonless foe with a stealth attack inflicts fear on nearby foes.

Trickery

• Preparedness — Increases maximum initiative by 3. Gain increased expertise.
• Deadly Ambush — Stealing also applies bleeding. Bleeding you inflict deals more damage.

Deadeye

• Malicious Intent — Marking a target or striking your mark with a stealth attack will immediately grant malice.

Notes

Anomaly:

This skill has unlisted scaling with malice but it only applies to the final strike and is only 2% per malice.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 20, 2024	Janthir Wilds release: Malicious Ashen Assault has been added to the game. Increased the attack range from 170 to 240. Reduced the bleeding and poison stacks from 4 for 8 seconds to 3 for 7 seconds in PvE only.
June 27, 2024	Malicious Ashen Assault was available during the Spear Beta Event.