Shadow Gust

Cantrip. Knock away nearby foes with a burst of shadow magic, then stealth yourself. If this skill hits your marked target, they'll be launched instead. — In-game description

Shadow Gust

 

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Deadeye

Slot

Utility

Type

Cantrip

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

46335

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0.5½  30  

Shadow Gust

Cantrip. Knock away nearby foes with a burst of shadow magic, then stealth yourself. If this skill hits your marked target, they'll be launched instead.

 Damage: 106 (0.4)^?

 Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

 Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.

 Launch: 450

 Knockback: 450

 Number of Targets: 5

 Defiance Break: 382[sic]

 Radius: 240

— In-game description

Related traits

Critical Strikes

• Hidden Killer — Gain bonus critical-hit chance while stealthed. This bonus lingers for a short duration after you've been revealed.

Shadow Arts

• Merciful Ambush — Heal when you enter or exit stealth. Stealth yourself and your target when reviving an ally. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Shadow's Embrace — Remove conditions when you enter or exit stealth. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Meld with Shadows — Gain superspeed when you enter or exit stealth.
• Leeching Venoms — Venom utility skills siphon life from struck foes. Gain stacks of Spider Venom when you enter or exit stealth. Siphoning can only occur once per strike.
• Cloaked in Shadow — Gaining stealth blinds nearby foes. Blinding a foe siphons health from them.
• Cover of Shadow — Gain protection when you enter or exit stealth. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Shadow's Rejuvenation — Gain initiative when you enter or exit stealth.

Trickery

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

Deadeye

• One in the Chamber — When you cast a cantrip, gain a random new stolen skill. Stolen skills deal more damage. (Requires a marked target. Overwrites existing stolen skills.)
• 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:

The Defiance Break sums up the excluding knockback and launch value to 382 rather than displaying 150 for knockback and 232 for launch.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
August 31, 2021	Fixed a bug that sometimes caused a normal autoattack to queue during the casting of this skill, causing players to use a normal attack instead of a stealth attack afterward.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Reduced power coefficient from 0.4 to 0.01 in PvP and WvW.
July 10, 2018	This skill now cancels the thief's autoattack when activated.
May 08, 2018	Reduced the recharge from 40 seconds to 30 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Shadow Gust has been added to the game.