Impale (elementalist skill)

This article is about the elementalist skill Impale. For other skills with the same name, see Impale.

Spear your foes on a giant stone spike. — In-game description

Impale

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand dagger

Attunement

Earth

Game link

API

15717

“

0.75¾  

Impale

Spear your foes on a giant stone spike.

 Damage: 282 (0.77)^?

 Damage: 188 (0.513)^?

 Bleeding (10s): 220 Damage

 Range: 300

— In-game description

Related traits

Earth

• Serrated Stones — Bleeding you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased damage to bleeding foes.

Notes

• Attack speed is 1 attack per 0.84 seconds.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.77 to 0.513.
May 08, 2018	The damage of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the higher 28% damage increase in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Increased damage by 28% in PvP and WvW.
October 18, 2016	The aftercast of this ability has been reduced by 0.13 seconds. The damage of this ability has been increased by 20%, and the duration of bleeding has been increased from 8 seconds to 10 seconds.
December 03, 2012	Fixed an exploit with this skill's interaction with Signet of Restoration.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Impale has been added to the game.

Trivia

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