Smoldering Arrow

Shoot an arrow that explodes on impact, blinding foes. — In-game description

Smoldering Arrow

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Weapon

Longbow

Game link

API

14505

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0.25¼  0.5½  3  

Smoldering Arrow

Shoot an arrow that explodes on impact, blinding foes.

 Damage: 77 (0.2)^?

 Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Daze: 1 second

 Number of Targets: 5

 Maximum Count: 3

 Count Recharge: 16 seconds

 Count Recharge: 20 seconds

 Radius: 180

 Explosion

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Defiance Break: 100

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Strength

• 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.

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

• Unshakable Mountain — Using the final round of ammo on an ammunition skill grants barrier.
• Fierce as Fire — Gain increased strike damage for each round of ammunition spent.
• Lush Forest — Using the first round of ammo on an ammunition skill reduces the recharge of all warrior skills. Does not affect the recharge of Unsheathe Gunsaber, Sheathe Gunsaber, and Dragon Trigger.
• Guns and Glory — Gain ferocity for a short duration when you hit with an explosion. The effect stacks duration.

Notes

• This skill has a maximum count of 3.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	Reduced ammunition recharge time from 20 seconds to 16 seconds in PvE only.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Now applies 1 second of dazed on hit.
September 21, 2021	(Undocumented) This skill now triggers an explosion.
October 02, 2018	This skill now uses the ammunition system. Maximum ammunition is set at 3 with a recharge time of 20 seconds per charge. Time between uses has been set to 0.5 seconds.
April 19, 2016	The recharge time of this skill has been reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Longbow weapon skill range has been increased to 1200.
February 26, 2013	This ability is now a full projectile finisher.
December 14, 2012	Increased the velocity of arrows fired from Longbow skills by 30%.
September 17, 2012	This skill's casting time has been reduced.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Smoldering Arrow has been added to the game.