Rifle Butt

Knock back your foe with your rifle butt. Successfully striking a foe recovers ammunition for each of your other rifle skills. — In-game description

Animation

Rifle Butt

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Weapon

Rifle

Game link

API

14360

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Rifle Butt

Knock back your foe with your rifle butt. Successfully striking a foe recovers ammunition for each of your other rifle skills.

 Damage: 422 (1.0)^?

 Damage: 4 (0.01)^?

 Knockback: 600

 Number of Targets: 3

 Ammunition Recovered: 1

 Defiance Break: 150

 Range: 130

— In-game description

Related traits

Skill animation (open to play).

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

• This skill cleaves.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 08, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 20 seconds to 15 seconds in PvE only.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Increased the recharge of this skill from 15 seconds to 20 seconds. When foes are struck with this skill, all other rifle skills recover 1 ammunition. Slowed down the animation so the knockback occurs at 0.6 seconds (up from 0.367 seconds). (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.01.
September 29, 2015	Increased the knockback distance from 400 to 600.
December 10, 2013	Fixed a bug that prevented the knockback fact from displaying the correct distance.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Rifle Butt has been added to the game.