Lotus Strike

Strike your foe and inflict Poison. — In-game description

Lotus Strike

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand dagger

Activ. type

Chain

Sequence

 →  → 

Game link

API

13108

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0.25¼  

Lotus Strike

Strike your foe and inflict Poison.

 Damage: 440 (1.2)^?

 Damage: 269 (0.733)^?

₂ Poison (5s): 335 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Number of Targets: 2

 Range: 130

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Dagger Training — Gain bonus power, which is increased when wielding a dagger.
• Lotus Poison — Weaken targets when you poison them.
• 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.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 29, 2022	Increased power coefficient from 1.1 to 1.2 in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Autoattack Chain: Reduced power coefficients from 0.6/0.65/1.1 to 0.4/0.433/0.733.
December 11, 2018	The number of poison stacks this skill grants has been increased from 1 to 2, and its duration has been reduced from 6 seconds to 5 seconds.
January 26, 2016	This skill's damage has been increased by 29%. The attack point has been increased by 0.06 seconds and the aftercast delay has been reduced by 0.35 seconds.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Increased the poison duration from 4 seconds to 6 seconds.
September 09, 2014	This attack chain now hits up to 2 enemies.
June 25, 2013	Increased the poison duration from 2 seconds to 4 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Lotus Strike has been added to the game.

Trivia

• This skill used to cause vulnerability and weakness during early beta phases. The female summoned thief still uses the version of the skill which causes weakness.
• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.