Shadow Strike

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

Shadow Strike

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Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand pistol
Off hand dagger

Type

Dual Wield

Movement

Shadowstep

Sequence

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Game link

External links

API

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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.

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

• Assassin's Reward — Heal yourself whenever you use a skill that uses initiative. Heal yourself for each point of initiative spent.

Specter

• Larcenous Torment — Torment you inflict is increased. 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 alacrity on their initial impact.
• Shadestep — Siphon now grants you barrier when targeting enemies, and it revives allies when targeting them. Shadowstepping breaks your barrier and grants it to nearby allies, proportional to the number of allies affected.

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.