Scorpion Wire

Trick. Throw a scorpion wire and pull your foe to you. — In-game description

Scorpion Wire

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Trick

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

13020

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0.5½  1  2  

Scorpion Wire

Trick. Throw a scorpion wire and pull your foe to you.

 Damage: 133 (0.5)^?

 Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

 Maximum Count: 2

 Count Recharge: 20 seconds

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Trickery

• Trickster — Tricks remove conditions.
• Pressure Striking — Enemies you interrupt are inflicted with torment. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Daredevil

• Impacting Disruption — Enemies that you interrupt suffer a pulmonary impact. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Deadeye

• Payback — When Renewing Gaze triggers, this trait restores a portion of the recharge time needed by your healing, utility, and elite skills. Excludes racial skills.

Notes

Bug:

In addition to its intended functionality, Scorpion Wire can also simply knock your foe down without pulling, pull you to your foe instead, or a mix of these effects.

• Scorpion Wire can be reflected causing the thief to be pulled to the target.
• Using Scorpion Wire with applied   Basilisk Venom won't pull the target towards your location but stun it in place.
• Defiance Break: 150

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.5 to 0.01.
August 28, 2018	This skill now has a maximum ammunition of 2 with a recharge time of 1, and it will restock 1 ammunition every 20 seconds.
June 25, 2013	Decreased the aftercast by .2 seconds. Reduced the cooldown to 20 seconds.
November 15, 2012	This skill's range has been increased to 1200.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Scorpion Wire has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.
• This skill is a possible reference to a signature move used by Scorpion from the fighting game Mortal Kombat.