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

Mechanics

• 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.
  •  Fear from this trait is centered around 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.
  • If a target has ₂₅ Might, you will gain all 25 stacks.
  • If a target has 60 seconds of  Swiftness, you will gain all 60 seconds.

Unique skill interactions

•   Sneak Attack — This skill will only activate once per attack on any of the strikes.
•   Tactical Strike — The  Daze from this skill overrides the  Fear on the initial target.

Bug:

  Malicious Surprise Shot — The extra arrows do not activate this trait. This is unique from other stealth attack traits, which do activate off these extra arrows.

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Cunning Salvo — Axe
•   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 Cunning Salvo — Axe
•   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

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.