Malicious Deadly Strike

Stealth Attack. Attack while in stealth, bleeding and weakening your target. Consumes all malice to deal bonus damage if it strikes your mark. — In-game description

Malicious Deadly Strike

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Deadeye

Weapon

Spear

Type

Stealth Attack

Game link

API

50417

This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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Malicious Deadly Strike

Stealth Attack. Attack while in stealth, bleeding and weakening your target. Consumes all malice to deal bonus damage if it strikes your mark.

 Damage: 440 (1.2)^?

 Bonus Damage per Malice: 15%

 Bleeding (10s): 220 Damage

 Weakness (4s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, +50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

 Number of Targets: 3

 Range: 150

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Even the Odds — Apply vulnerability when you steal. Gain might when you hit with a stealth attack.
• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Critical Strikes

• Sundering Shade — Stealth Attack skills inflict vulnerability and grant fury upon successfully hitting foes.

Shadow Arts

• Hidden Thief — Stealing inflicts blindness. Stealth Attacks inflict weakness. Cannot affect the same target more than once per interval.
• Shadow Siphoning — Stealth attacks siphon health if they hit. Cannot siphon the same target more than once per interval.
• Rending Shade — Steal boons from enemies you strike with stealth attacks. Striking a boonless foe with a stealth attack inflicts fear on nearby foes.

Trickery

• Deadly Ambush — Stealing also applies bleeding. Bleeding you inflict deals more damage.

Deadeye

• Malicious Intent — Marking a target or striking your mark with a stealth attack will immediately grant malice.

Notes

Anomaly:

When Malicious Deadly Strike was added to the game and Deadly Strike was improved, Malicious Deadly Strike retained Deadly Strike's former power coefficient -- making it perform worse than its non-Deadeye counterpart with 4 or less malice (and merely 5% better at 5 malice).

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 08, 2018	Malicious Deadly Strike has been added to the game.