Shadow Strike

Dual Wield. Stab your foe, then shadowstep away and shoot them. Unlock Repeater for a short time. — In-game description

Shadow Strike

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand pistol
Off hand dagger

Type

Dual Wield

Movement

Shadowstep

Sequence

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Game link

API

13010

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Shadow Strike

Dual Wield. Stab your foe, then shadowstep away and shoot them. Unlock Repeater for a short time.

  Damage: 116 (0.315)^?

  Shot Damage: 481 (1.3125)^?

 ₂ Torment (6s): 264 Damage, 382 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

  Repeater (4s): Now has access to the Repeater skill.

  Repeater (3s): Now has access to the Repeater skill.

  Distance: 600

  Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Dagger Training — Gain bonus power, which is increased when wielding a dagger.
• Deadly Ambition — Inflict poison when striking a foe with a dual wield attack. Gain increased condition damage. Applies poison once per attack use.
• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Critical Strikes

• Deadly Aim — Your pistol and harpoon gun attacks now pierce, but have reduced strike damage.

Shadow Arts

• Shadow Savior — After completing a shadowstep, you are healed. Nearby allies are also healed for a larger amount. Only affects thief shadowsteps.

Acrobatics

• Guarded Initiation — Movement skills grant resistance.
• Hard to Catch — Gain endurance when you shadowstep.
• Assassin's Reward — Heal yourself whenever you use a skill that uses initiative. Heal yourself for each point of initiative spent.

Trickery

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

Specter

• Larcenous Torment — Steal health and gain shadow force when you torment a foe. Does not grant shadow force while in shroud.
• Traversing Dusk — Heal allies in the area around you when you shadowstep. Gain shadow force for each ally in the radius. Wells grant resistance on their initial impact.
• Strength of Shadows — Gain expertise based on a percentage of your vitality. Torment you inflict deals increased damage.

Notes

• There are four components to this skill:

1. Stabs a foe with a dagger attack, dealing damage and inflicting two stacks of torment.
2. If an enemy was hit, the player shadowsteps 600 units directly away from them.
3. After shadowstepping away, a projectile attack is fired at a target foe within 1300 range.
4. This skill then flips over to Repeater for 3-4 seconds depending on game mode.
5. Repeater can continue to be used for as long as you have the buff; during this time, Shadow Strike is unusable.

• Dagger Training only affects the dagger attack.
• Deadly Aim (trait) only affects the projectile attack.
• Deadly Ambition affects both attacks.
• Jumping while using this skill will prevent the shot and teleport, however Repeater will still become available.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 25, 2021	Reduced applied torment from 4 stacks to 2 stacks in PvE only. This now matches the number of stacks currently in PvP and WvW.
July 07, 2020	Repeater availability duration has been reduced from 4 to 3 seconds in PvP and WvW.
May 26, 2020	Reduced the number of torment stacks from 4 to 2 in PvP and WvW.
March 05, 2019	This skill now grants access to Repeater for 4 seconds upon landing a successful melee hit.
May 08, 2018	The torment this skill inflicts is no longer split between game modes and will now use the higher 4-stack torment in all modes.
December 12, 2017	Increased applied torment from 2 stacks for 5 seconds to 2 stacks for 6 seconds.
December 13, 2016	The amount of torment applied by this ability has been increased from 2 stacks to 4 stacks in PvP only.
January 26, 2016	This skill will now trigger Assassin's Reward correctly, even if it misses.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: All skills categorized as dual-wield have received a 5% damage increase.
April 15, 2014	Updated the damage skill fact for the second strike to display the correct damage amount.
October 15, 2013	This ability now has a distance skill fact that represents the distance retreated.
July 23, 2013	This skill now applies 2 stacks of torment for 5 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Shadow Strike has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.