Disrupting Stab

Dazes your target. If your target is using a skill, the daze duration is extended. — In-game description

Disrupting Stab

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Specialization

Spellbreaker

Weapon

Main hand dagger

Game link

API

44937

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Disrupting Stab

Dazes your target. If your target is using a skill, the daze duration is extended.

 Damage: 440 (1.2)^?

 Damage: 147 (0.4)^?

 Daze: 0.25¼ seconds

 Daze vs. Skill Use: 10.5½ seconds

 Daze vs. Skill Use: 1 second

 Daze vs. Skill Use: 10.5½ seconds

 Defiance Break: 250[sic]

 Defiance Break: 200[sic]

 Defiance Break: 250[sic]

 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

• No Escape — Dazes and stuns inflict immobilize.
• 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

Bug:

The Defiance Break sums up both daze values, e.g. 100+150=250 for PvE.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 04, 2022	Increased daze duration when interrupting an enemy from 1 second to 1.5 seconds in PvP only.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Rather than stunning foes, this skill now extends the 0.25-second daze when used against foes using skills. The extended daze is 1.5 seconds in PvE and 1 second in competitive modes. Removed bonus damage. Base damage increased by 50% in PvE only. Competitive split (WvW and PvP): Reduced power coefficient from 0.8 to 0.4.
March 27, 2018	Reduced stun duration from 1.5 seconds to 1 second in PvP and WvW.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Disrupting Stab has been added to the game.

Trivia

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