Shadow Assault

This article is about the thief underwater spear skill. For other uses, see Shadow Assault (disambiguation).

Strike your foe repeatedly with a shadowy assault. Evades while active. — In-game description

Shadow Assault

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Game link

API

13068

This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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0.5½  5  

Shadow Assault

Strike your foe repeatedly with a shadowy assault. Evades while active.

 Damage (3x): 879 (2.4)^?

 Number of Attacks: 3

 Evade: 2 seconds

 Range: 200

— In-game description

Related traits

Acrobatics

• Feline Grace — Gain vigor upon successfully evading an attack.
• Swindler's Equilibrium — Gain power and additional power when while wielding a sword or underwater spear. Successfully evading an attack while wielding a sword or underwater spear recharges Steal.
• Assassin's Reward — Heal yourself whenever you use a skill that uses initiative. Heal yourself for each point of initiative spent.
• Upper Hand — Gain initiative when you dodge, and gain initiative and regeneration when you evade an attack. Evading can only trigger this trait once per interval.

Trickery

• Lead Attacks — Increases all damage dealt per initiative spent. Steal gains reduced recharge time.

Daredevil

• Escapist's Fortitude — Gain health when you successfully evade an attack. Remove a condition whenever you evade an attack.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 08, 2018	The duration of this skill has been reduced by 50%, resulting in less evasion time but more rapid damage. Its initiative cost has been reduced from 7 to 5.
August 06, 2013	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to have a longer than intended range. It will now properly match the range skill fact.
June 25, 2013	Increased the initiative cost from 5 to 7.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Shadow Assault has been added to the game.