Head Butt

Rage. Stun your target and stun yourself. Gain adrenaline and extend berserk duration if you hit. — In-game description

Head Butt

 

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Specialization

Berserker

Slot

Elite

Type

Rage

Movement

Leap

Training cost

25 Hero points

Game link

API

30343

“

0.75¾  

20

18

 

Head Butt

Rage. Stun your target and stun yourself. Gain adrenaline and extend berserk duration if you hit.

 Damage: 1,196 (4.5)^?

 Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

 Adrenaline: 30

 Stun: 3 seconds

 Self-Stun: 1 second

 Duration Increase: 2 seconds

 Duration Increase: 1 second

 Breaks Stun

 Defiance Break: 400[sic]

 Range: 400

— In-game description

Mechanics

Bug:

The Defiance Break sums up the stun and the self stun: 300+100=400 instead of correctly using only the stun for 300 Defiance Break

• When using  Stalwart Strength, the  Stability granted upon inflicting stun immediately negates the self-stun that this skill inflicts.

Related traits

Strength

• Brave Stride — Movement skills grant stability when used.
• 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

• Defy Pain — Cast Lesser Endure Pain when you use an elite skill.
• 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.

Discipline

• Warrior's Sprint — Run faster while wielding melee weapons, and deal increased strike damage while you have swiftness. Movement skills break immobilization when used.

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.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
October 04, 2022	Reduced berserk mode extension from 2 seconds to 1 second in PvP and WvW. This skill no longer removes stability from the user, and it no longer deals increased damage when removing stability. Increased power coefficient from 3.0 to 4.5 in PvE 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: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 3.0 to 0.01. Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 18 seconds.
July 16, 2019	This skill now removes all stacks of stability when casting and does 50% more damage if stability was removed.
April 23, 2019	This skill extends berserk duration by 2 seconds in addition to its previous effects.
May 16, 2017	The casting time of this skill has been increased from 0.5 seconds to 0.75 seconds. Distance traveled has been increased from 300 to 400.
July 26, 2016	Fixed an issue in which skills could be executed before the warrior stunned themselves. Increased the cooldown of this skill from 20 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only.
June 01, 2016	Fixed a bug that allowed this ability to go on interrupt cooldown after breaking a stun. This ability will now go on full recharge if interrupted.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Head Butt has been added to the game.

Trivia

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