Binding Shadow

Cantrip. Reveal yourself if you are stealthed and remove boons from your target after a short delay. If the foe is your marked target, they are also immobilized. — In-game description

Binding Shadow

 

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Deadeye

Slot

Utility

Type

Cantrip

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

41205

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Binding Shadow

Cantrip. Reveal yourself if you are stealthed and remove boons from your target after a short delay. If the foe is your marked target, they are also immobilized.

 Damage: 266 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

 Immobilize (2s): Unable to move.

 Revealed (3s): You cannot stealth

₂ Poison (10s): 670 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

₁₅ Vulnerability (10s): +15% Incoming Damage, +15% Incoming Condition Damage

₁₅ Vulnerability (6s): +15% Incoming Damage, +15% Incoming Condition Damage

 Boons Removed: 2

 Knockdown: 3 seconds[sic]

 Defiance Break: 300

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Lotus Poison — Weaken targets when you poison them.
• Panic Strike — Immobilizing a foe poisons them. Striking a foe below the health threshold immobilizes them.
• Revealed Training — Gain power, then gain extra power while you are revealed.
• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.
• Potent Poison — Poison you inflict has increased damage and duration. Other Deadly Arts traits apply additional stacks of poison.

Trickery

• Pressure Striking — Enemies you interrupt are inflicted with torment. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Deadeye

• One in the Chamber — When you cast a cantrip, gain a random new stolen skill. Stolen skills deal more damage. (Requires a marked target. Overwrites existing stolen skills.)
• Payback — When Renewing Gaze triggers, this trait restores a portion of the recharge time needed by your healing, utility, and elite skills. Excludes racial skills.

Notes

Bug:

This skill retained its knockdown tooltip, in spite of no longer knocking targets down following the 2023-06-27 update.

• Applies  Revealed to the caster if activated while in stealth.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE and from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP and WvW. This skill now immobilizes marked targets instead of knocking them down.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
May 11, 2021	This skill now reveals the caster if they are using stealth when the skill begins. Reduced the aftercast animation from 0.25 seconds to 0.08 seconds.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.01. Reduced vulnerability duration from 10 seconds to 6 seconds.
July 10, 2018	This skill now requires a line of sight to the player's target to activate. Note that the attack portion of this skill does not require line of sight to hit as long as the activation has already occurred.
May 08, 2018	This skill no longer scales condition duration with malice and instead removes 2 boons when it hits any target. The knockdown effect is now applied in addition to the immobile condition when the skill is used against a thief's mark.
March 27, 2018	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to knock down for longer than its listed value.
November 07, 2017	This skill now performs a range check before activating. Removed range and line-of-sight restrictions from the delayed attack.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Binding Shadow has been added to the game.