Shield Bash

This article is about a warrior shield skill. For other uses, see Bash.

Bash your foe with your shield and stun them. — In-game description

Shield Bash

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Weapon

Shield

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

14361

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0.75¾  20  

Shield Bash

Bash your foe with your shield and stun them.

 Damage: 330 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

 Stun: 2 seconds

 Combo Finisher: Leap

 Defiance Break: 200

 Range: 450

— In-game description

Related traits

Strength

• Brave Stride — Movement skills grant stability when used.
• Body Blow — Stuns, dazes, knockbacks, pulls, pushes, and launches inflict bleeding and weakness.
• Aggressive Onslaught — Gain quickness when you disable an enemy. While you have quickness, your movement speed is increased. This stacks with other movement speed increases.

Arms

• Opportunist — Gain fury and adrenaline when you immobilize or disable a foe.
• Unsuspecting Foe — Increased critical-hit chance against disabled or defiant foes. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Defense

• Merciless Hammer — Hammer and mace skills deal increased damage when striking a disabled or defiant foe. Gain adrenaline when you disable a foe. Disables include stun, taunt, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, and launch.
• Stalwart Strength — Gain stability when you disable a foe. Deal increased strike damage while you have stability.

Discipline

• Warrior's Sprint — Run faster while wielding melee weapons, and deal increased strike damage while you have swiftness. Movement skills break immobilization when used.

Spellbreaker

• No Escape — Dazes and stuns inflict immobilize.
• Dispelling Force — Dazes, stuns, pulls, knockdowns, knockbacks, and launches remove boons.
• Attacker's Insight — Gain Insight when disabling foes or removing boons. Full Counter refreshes all burst skills on hit. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt and fear.

Bladesworn

• Swift as the Wind — Movement skills grant swiftness and increase flow rate.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.01.
May 16, 2017	The initial casting time of this skill has been increased, moving the skill from 0.5 seconds to 0.75 seconds total.
October 18, 2016	Fixed a bug that prevented the immobile condition from being removed when the Warrior's Sprint trait is equipped.
July 26, 2016	This skill will no longer be affected by movement-impairing conditions.
September 29, 2015	Decreased the recharge from 25 seconds to 20 seconds. Increased the stun duration from 1 second to 2 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Shield Bash has been added to the game.

Trivia

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