Serpent's Strike

Leap to your target and cripple them. If your target is disabled, defiant, or movement impaired, immobilize them instead. — In-game description

Animation

Serpent's Strike

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand sword

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

12482

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0.75¾  

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16

 

Serpent's Strike

Leap to your target and cripple them. If your target is disabled, defiant, or movement impaired, immobilize them instead.

 Damage: 1,100 (3.0)^?

 Damage: 550 (1.5)^?

 Cripple (3s): -50% Movement Speed

 Immobilize (3s): Unable to move.

 Immobilize (10.5½s): Unable to move.

 Poison (6s): 201 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Evade: 0.5½ seconds

 Combo Finisher: Leap

 Range: 600

— In-game description

Related traits

Marksmanship

• Farsighted — Ranger weapon skills deal increased strike damage. Damage is further increased for foes above the range threshold.
• Predator's Onslaught — You and your pet deal increased strike damage to disabled, defiant, or movement-impaired foes. Affected conditions are stun, taunt, daze, cripple, fear, immobilize, and chilled.

Skirmishing

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

Wilderness Survival

• Poison Master — Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.

Druid

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

Soulbeast

• Predator's Cunning — When you apply poison to a foe, steal some health from them.
• Oppressive Superiority — Deal increased damage to foes at a lower health percentage than you. Conditions you apply to foes at a lower health percentage than you last longer.

Notes

• The attack is performed after the evasive leap.
• Does not require a target to be used, thus allowing it to be used as a movement skill.
  • The evade happens during the animation even in close combat

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	This skill has been moved to the third slot and has been reworked. You will now leap to your target while evading, applying poison and cripple on hit. This skill will immobilize instead of cripple if the target is movement impaired or disabled.
June 30, 2022	Damage multiplier increased from 0.8 to 1.5 in PvE only.
October 01, 2019	This skill is now the follow-up skill to Monarch's Leap. It no longer has a recharge.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Increased the number of poison stacks from 1 stack for 6 seconds to 2 stacks for 6 seconds. Movement-speed adjustments no longer affect the intended travel distance.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Serpent's Strike has been added to the game.