Rending Shade

Steal boons from enemies you strike with stealth attacks. Striking a boonless foe with a stealth attack inflicts fear on nearby foes. — In-game description

Rending Shade

Specialization

Shadow Arts (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

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Rending Shade

Steal boons from enemies you strike with stealth attacks. Striking a boonless foe with a stealth attack inflicts fear on nearby foes.

  Boons Stolen: 2

  Fear (1s): Involuntary retreat; unable to act; stacks duration.

  Maximum Fear Targets: 5

  Radius: 180

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Backstab — Dagger
•   Sneak Attack — Pistol
•   Tactical Strike — Sword
•   Death's Judgment — Rifle
•   Surprise Shot — Short bow
•   Deadly Strike — Spear
•   The Ripper — Harpoon gun
•   Hook Strike — Staff
•   Malicious Backstab — Dagger
•   Malicious Sneak Attack — Pistol
•   Malicious Shadowsquall — Scepter
•   Malicious Tactical Strike — Sword
•   Malicious Death's Judgment — Rifle
•   Malicious Surprise Shot — Short bow
•   Malicious Hook Strike — Staff
•   Malicious Deadly Strike — Spear
•   Malicious Ripper — Harpoon gun
•   Shadowsquall — Scepter

Downed skills that are improved by this trait

•   Venomous Knife

Notes

• The effect occurs after a stealth attack hits. As such, the stealth attack can be blocked by  Aegis, and Protection will reduce the damage of the stealth attack before being stolen.
• The effect can trigger on any of the Sneak Attack projectiles but will only trigger once per attack.
• The fear effect is centered on the thief.
• The order of boon removal is  Stability,  Fury,  Resistance,  Quickness,  Protection,  Swiftness,  Vigor,  Might,  Resolution,  Alacrity,  Regeneration.
• Unlike  Bountiful Theft, this trait will transfer the entire stack of the boon removed to your character. For example, if your target has 25 stacks of Might, you will gain all 25 stacks, while your target loses all 25 stacks. Same for duration stacking boons like Swiftness: hitting a target with 60 seconds of Swiftness will give you the full 60 seconds.
• The daze effect of Tactical Strike overwrites the fear effect for the main target of the stealth attack.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 28, 2022	Increased the number of boons stolen from 1 to 2 in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced number of boons stolen from 2 to 1.
July 17, 2019	Fixed a bug that caused sneak attacks to apply fear without this trait equipped.
July 16, 2019	This trait no longer reduces damage from boonless foes. Instead it inflicts fear in a small area if it hits a boonless foe.
August 28, 2018	The damage reduction against foes that don't have boons has been increased from 10% to 15%.
July 26, 2016	Rending Shade has been added to the game.