Point-Blank Shot

Push back your foe with a point-blank shot. The closer they are, the farther it pushes them back. — In-game description

Point-Blank Shot

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Weapon

Longbow

Game link

API

12511

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0.5½  15  

Point-Blank Shot

Push back your foe with a point-blank shot. The closer they are, the farther it pushes them back.

 Damage: 308 (0.8)^?

 Damage: 4 (0.01)^?

 Maximum Knockback: 600

 Minimum Knockback: 100

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Defiance Break: 300

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Marksmanship

• Farsighted — Ranger weapon skills deal increased strike damage. Damage is further increased for foes above the range threshold.
• Moment of Clarity — Gain an attack of opportunity for you and your pet on interrupting a foe. Daze and stun durations that you inflict last longer. This trait can only grant an attack of opportunity against enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Lead the Wind — Your longbow and harpoon-gun skills pierce and recharge faster. Point-Blank Shot grants boons.

Skirmishing

• Quick Draw — When swapping weapons, the next ranger weapon skill you use will recharge faster.

Beastmastery

• Two-Handed Training — Greatsword and underwater spear skills deal more damage and recharge faster. Gain fury when you disable a foe.

Druid

• Blood Moon — Daze enemies when you become a celestial avatar. Inflict bleeding on enemies you immobilize or disable.

Soulbeast

• Twice as Vicious — Disabling a foe increases your damage and condition damage for a short duration.

Untamed

• Debilitating Blows — Disabling a foe applies conditions to that foe based on your current state. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Enhancing Impact — Disabling a foe grants you boons based on your current state. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Notes

• The projectile flies in a small arc and can actually hit targets outside of the maximum range.
• If an enemy reflects the arrow, the player is knocked back instead.
• The damage and push count as separate strikes; single-attack block skills such as Counterblow will prevent the damage, but not the push.

Bug:

The tooltip incorrectly sums the defiance break values of both listed knockbacks (150 + 150 = 300), even though only one knockback occurs. The correct amount of defiance break done by this skill is 150.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.8 to 0.01.
July 16, 2019	This skill now scales knockback distance dynamically between a range of 100 and 600 based on distance from the target.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Range has been increased to 1200. All ranger longbow skills have had their velocity increased 100%.
November 04, 2014	Added a warm-up to this skill and changed the projectile to help differentiate it from other ranger longbow abilities.
July 23, 2013	Increased the range from 600 to 900.
June 25, 2013	Increased the arrow speed by 15%.
April 30, 2013	No longer has an increased cast time when the Eagle Eye trait is equipped.
December 14, 2012	Increased the velocity of arrows fired from Short Bow and Longbow skills by 30%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Point-Blank Shot has been added to the game.

Trivia

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