Rupturing Smash

Primal Burst. Jump to the targeted location and slam your hammer down, creating a deadly chain of earthen shock waves that immobilize and daze foes. — In-game description

Rupturing Smash

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Specialization

Berserker

Slot

Profession mechanic

Weapon

Hammer

Type

Primal Burst

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

30879

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Rupturing Smash

Primal Burst. Jump to the targeted location and slam your hammer down, creating a deadly chain of earthen shock waves that immobilize and daze foes.

  Damage: 605 (1.5)^?

  Damage: 460 (1.14)^?

  Immobilize (2s): Unable to move.

  Daze: 1 second

  Daze: 2 seconds

  Radius: 360

  Combo Finisher: Blast

  Defiance Break: 100

  Range: 600

— In-game description

Related traits

Strength

• Brave Stride — Movement skills grant stability when used.
• Building Momentum — Burst skills restore endurance on hit.
• Body Blow — Stuns, dazes, knockbacks, pulls, pushes, and launches inflict bleeding and weakness.
• Berserker's Power — Gain increased strike damage when you use a burst skill; this damage increase is based on your adrenaline.
• Aggressive Onslaught — Gain quickness when you disable an enemy. While you have quickness, your movement speed is increased. This stacks with other movement speed increases.

Arms

• Opportunist — Gain fury and adrenaline when you immobilize a target.
• Unsuspecting Foe — Increased critical-hit chance against disabled or defiant foes. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Sundering Burst — Burst skills inflict vulnerability if they hit and inflict additional vulnerability if the attack is a critical hit. Can only occur once per interval per target for multihit burst skills.
• Burst Precision — Burst skills have an increased critical chance.

Defense

• Merciless Hammer — Hammer and mace skills deal increased damage when striking a disabled or defiant foe. Gain adrenaline when you disable a foe. Disables include stun, taunt, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, and launch.
• Stalwart Strength — Gain stability when you disable a foe. Deal increased strike damage while you have stability.

Tactics

• Leg Specialist — Immobilize a target when you cripple them with a skill. Deal increased strike damage to foes affected with movement-impairing conditions.

Discipline

• Warrior's Sprint — Run faster while wielding melee weapons, and deal increased strike damage while you have swiftness. Movement skills break immobilization when used.

Berserker

• Primal Rage — Gain access to berserk mode and primal bursts.
• King of Fires — Increase the duration of burning you apply. Gain fire aura when you critically hit an enemy. Berserker skills detonate fire aura, damaging and burning nearby foes.

Notes

• For clarity, hits 5 targets.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 04, 2022	Increased attack area from 180 degrees in front of the player to 360 degrees around the player. Increased daze duration from 1 second to 2 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.5 to 1.14.
April 23, 2019	Cleaned up animation, and reduced casting time by approximately 0.1 seconds.
February 22, 2017	Increased damage by 50%.
October 18, 2016	This attack now strikes as a single hit within an arc rather than a cascading damage attack. The effect for this skill has been sped up to better match its new functionality. The radius has been increased to 360. The ground decal size has been increased to match the new radius. The daze duration has been increased to 1 second.
November 04, 2015	Added 0.5 seconds of daze to this skill. Increased immobilize duration from 1 second to 2 seconds.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Rupturing Smash has been added to the game.