Sharpening Stone

This article is about the ranger utility skill. For the consumable, see Utility item.

Survival. Bleed foes with your next few attacks. — In-game description

Sharpening Stone

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Survival

Training cost

2 Hero points

Game link

API

12537

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30  

Sharpening Stone

Survival. Bleed foes with your next few attacks.

₁₀ Sharpening Stone (30s): Attacks inflict bleeding.

 Bleeding (8s): 176 Damage

— In-game description

Related traits

Skirmishing

• Hidden Barbs — Bleeding you inflict is more dangerous.

Wilderness Survival

• Wilderness Knowledge — Survival skills grant fury and remove conditions.

Soulbeast

• 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

• Skills that make multiple attacks, such as Rapid Fire use multiple stacks of sharpening stone, one for each attack.
• Skills that bounce, pierce or strike multiple targets use a charge per strike.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 07, 2017	Decreased the duration of bleeding applied from stacks of this skill from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.
February 22, 2017	The number of stacks that this skill applies has been increased from 6 to 10.
July 26, 2016	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 45 seconds to 30 seconds. Bleeding duration has been increased from 6 seconds to 10 seconds. The number of attacks this skill applies has been increased from 5 to 6.
August 06, 2013	Counters will no longer decrement on every attack going, but only on attacks hit, evaded, missed (from blind), or blocked. The buff provided when this skill is activated will now properly display the remaining number of charges.
January 28, 2013	The number of uses on this skill's effect will now decrease if an attack lands or if the attack is negated by Blind, Block, Evade, Obstructed, or Invulnerable.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Sharpening Stone has been added to the game.