Wild Blow

Rage. Lash out with a critical attack that knocks down your foes. Gain fury and extend the duration of berserk mode if this attack hits. — In-game description

Wild Blow

 

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Specialization

Berserker

Slot

Utility

Type

Rage

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

29941

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Wild Blow

Rage. Lash out with a critical attack that knocks down your foes. Gain fury and extend the duration of berserk mode if this attack hits.

 Damage: 665 (2.5)^?

 Damage: 452 (1.7)^?

 Fury (8s): +25% Critical Chance

 Fury (8s): +20% Critical Chance

 Condition Removed

 Condition Removed

 Condition Removed

 Critical Chance Increase: 100%

 Adrenaline: 5

 Adrenaline: 10

 Daze: 3 seconds

 Daze: 1 second

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration Increase: 4 seconds

 Duration Increase: 1 second

 Defiance Break: 300

 Range: 170

— 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

• Furious Burst — Gain fury when you swap weapons. Fury gives an increased critical chance.
• Opportunist — Gain fury and adrenaline when you immobilize or disable a foe.
• Deep Strikes — Gain condition damage when you have fury. You have increased chance to critically strike against bleeding foes.
• 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.

Tactics

• Empowered — Deal increased strike damage for every boon on you.

Berserker

• Last Blaze — When you use a rage skill, inflict burning on nearby enemies.
• King of Fires — Increase the duration of burning you apply. Gain fire aura when you critically hit an enemy. Berserker skills detonate fire aura, damaging and burning nearby foes.

Gallery

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  Berserker using Wild Blow

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 19, 2024	This skill is now unblockable and inflicts dazed instead of knockdown. Increased the power coefficient from 0.01 to 1.7 in PvP and WvW. Guild Wars 2 Wiki note: There is no unblockable fact.
October 04, 2022	Reduced berserk mode extension from 4 seconds to 1 second in PvP and WvW. This skill now grants adrenaline (10 in PvP and WvW, 5 in PvE). This skill now removes blind, weakness, and slow upon activation, and it knocks enemies down instead of knocking them back.
June 28, 2022	Fury: Critical chance bonus increased from 20% to 25% in PvE only.
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 2.5 to 0.01.
July 16, 2019	Increased berserk extension from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.
April 23, 2019	This skill no longer gives adrenaline or removes conditions. Instead, it extends the duration of berserk mode by 3 seconds if it hits. It also grants 8 seconds of fury if it hits.
October 18, 2016	Reduced the recharge time to 20 seconds.
January 26, 2016	Increased adrenaline gain to 10 and moved adrenaline gain to occur on activation rather than on hit. Removes blind and weakness before the attack hits. Increased secondary knockback radius from 180 to 240. Fixed an issue that caused Wild Blow to not remove all weakness.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Wild Blow has been added to the game.

Trivia

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