Staggering Blow

Push back nearby foes with a staggering blow. — In-game description

Staggering Blow

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Weapon

Hammer

Game link

API

14359

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Staggering Blow

Push back nearby foes with a staggering blow.

 Damage: 404 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 4 (0.01)^?

 Knockback: 180

 Number of Targets: 5

 Combo Finisher: Whirl

 Defiance Break: 150

 Range: 130

— 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

• 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.

Notes

Anomaly:

Appears to deal its damage before its knockback, causing Aggressive Onslaught to not activate if enemies die from the damage, even though they still get knocked back.

• This skill is a point blank area of effect.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 29, 2022	Reduced cooldown from 18 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.01.
January 26, 2016	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 20 seconds to 18 seconds.
December 10, 2013	Reduced the damage by 23%.
October 15, 2013	This skill can now be used while moving. Reduced the cast time to 0.5 seconds.
July 23, 2013	Fixed an issue that caused players to stop in place after using this skill.
June 25, 2013	Reduced the aftercast by .25 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Staggering Blow has been added to the game.

Trivia

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