Nine-Tailed Strike

Block your foe and counterattack with a series of strikes. Gain initiative if you are not attacked. — In-game description

Nine-Tailed Strike

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Sequence

 → 

Game link

API

13122

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

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10.5½  5  

Nine-Tailed Strike

Block your foe and counterattack with a series of strikes. Gain initiative if you are not attacked.

 Damage (8x): 736 (2.0)^?

 Final Strike Damage: 183 (0.5)^?

 Vulnerability (9s): +1% Incoming Damage, +1% Incoming Condition Damage

 Number of Targets: 3

 Block Duration: 2 seconds

 Range: 150

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Acrobatics

• Assassin's Reward — Heal yourself whenever you use a skill that uses initiative. Heal yourself for each point of initiative spent.

Trickery

• Lead Attacks — Increases all damage dealt per initiative spent. Steal gains reduced recharge time.

Notes

• This skill cleaves.

Bug:

No initiative is gained from the skill regardless of being attacked or not.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 08, 2018	Increased the damage of this skill by 32%, adding 1 stack of vulnerability for 9 seconds for each hit, and increased the number of attacks from 8 to 9. The following Break Stance sequence skill now allows the thief to spend 2 more initiative to immediately activate the attack portion of the skill.
May 20, 2014	Decreased the initial multi-hit strike damage by 38% to match the intended skill fact numbers. Increased the final strike damage by 100%.
August 06, 2013	Updated this skill's skill facts.
June 25, 2013	Increased the initiative cost from 3 to 5.
October 22, 2012	This skill has been fixed to properly provide the intended amount of initiative.
October 01, 2012	The following profession skills now hit 3 targets instead of 1: Thief Spear: Stab, Jab, Poison Tip Strike, Nine Tailed Strike.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Nine-Tailed Strike has been added to the game.

Trivia

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