Spike Barrage

Beast. Fire a barrage of spikes at your target. — In-game description

Spike Barrage

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Pet

Bristleback

Slot

Pet (skill list)

Type

Beast

Game link

API

31367

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Spike Barrage

Beast. Fire a barrage of spikes at your target.

  Damage (10x): 4,550 (2.20)^?

  Damage (10x): 3,420 (1.65)^?

  Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Wilderness Survival

• Empathic Bond — Using a Beast trait[sic] removes conditions from you and your pet. Swapping pets recharges this trait.
• Poison Master — Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.

Nature Magic

• Rejuvenation — Beast skills now grant regeneration around the ranger.
• Invigorating Bond — Beast skills heal allies around the ranger.

Beastmastery

• Pack Alpha — Your pet's attributes are improved and pet skills gain recharge reduction. Improved attributes are power, condition damage, precision, toughness, and vitality.
• Go for the Eyes — Nearby foes are blinded by Beast abilities.
• Wilting Strike — Beast abilities inflict weakness on those struck. This effect will only occur once on each target struck by an ability.
• Beastly Warden — Beast abilities taunt nearby foes.

Soulbeast

• Live Fast — Using a Beast ability grants you offensive boons.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.22 to 0.165.
May 17, 2016	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to fire more projectiles than intended and reduced the overall projectiles to 10. Fixed a bug that caused 33% of the projectiles to deal 33% less damage than intended. Increased all projectile damage by 10%. Missiles are now fired directly at the target instead of at slight angles in the target's direction. The missile launch point has been normalized, fixing a bug that caused some projectiles to fail if the creature was on an incline.
February 24, 2016	Reduced the damage of this skill by 25%.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Spike Barrage has been added to the game.