Mantis Sting

Lead Attack. Cripple your foe with a quick strike. — In-game description

Mantis Sting

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Activ. type

Chain

Sequence

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Game link

API

73041

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0.5½  3  

Mantis Sting

Lead Attack. Cripple your foe with a quick strike.

 Damage: 367 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 147 (0.4)^?

 Cripple (3s): -50% Movement Speed

 Bleeding (4s): 88 Damage

 Bleeding (6s): 132 Damage

 Number of Targets: 3

 Range: 130

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on 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.
• Deadly Ambush — Stealing also applies bleeding. Bleeding you inflict deals more damage.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 20, 2024	Janthir Wilds release: Mantis Sting has been added to the game. Reduced the bleeding from 2 stacks for 6 seconds to 1 stack for 4 seconds in PvE only. Using a lead attack skill will now always enable follow-up skills unless the skill is interrupted.
June 27, 2024	Mantis Sting was available during the Spear Beta Event.