Oaken Cudgel

Imbue your mace with verdant energy and then leap to your target. Stun enemies and grant nearby allies protection. Gain Nature's Strength if you hit an enemy. — In-game description

Oaken Cudgel

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand mace

Game link

API

71963

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Oaken Cudgel

Imbue your mace with verdant energy and then leap to your target. Stun enemies and grant nearby allies protection. Gain Nature's Strength if you hit an enemy.

 Damage: 734 (2.0)^?

 Damage: 4 (0.01)^?

 Nature's Strength (25s): Imbued with vital energy. At 5 stacks you become a Force of Nature, growing enlarged, gaining stability, increasing your outgoing damage and healing, and recharging your mace skills.

 Force of Nature (5s): +10% Damage, +10% Healing Increase to Others

 Protection (4s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Protection (3s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Pet Heal (5s): Heal each second.

 Stun: 20.5½ seconds

 Stun: 10.5½ seconds

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 180

 Boon Radius: 360

 Combo Finisher: Blast

 Defiance Break: 250

 Range: 450

— In-game description

Related traits

Marksmanship

• Farsighted — Ranger weapon skills deal increased strike damage. Damage is further increased for foes above the range threshold.
• Moment of Clarity — Gain an attack of opportunity for you and your pet on interrupting a foe. Daze and stun durations that you inflict last longer. This trait can only grant an attack of opportunity against enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Predator's Onslaught — You and your pet deal increased strike damage to disabled, defiant, or movement-impaired foes. Affected conditions are stun, taunt, daze, cripple, fear, immobilize, and chilled.

Wilderness Survival

• Ambidexterity — Gain condition damage. Gain additional condition damage while wielding a torch, dagger, or mace. Torch and dagger skills recharge faster.
• Rugged Growth — You and your pet recover health while affected by protection.

Nature Magic

• Bountiful Hunter — You deal increased strike damage for each boon affecting you. Your pet deals increased strike damage for each boon affecting it.
• Fortifying Bond — When you gain a boon, it is shared with your pet.

Beastmastery

• Two-Handed Training — Greatsword and underwater spear skills deal more damage and recharge faster. Gain fury when you disable a foe.

Druid

• Blood Moon — Daze enemies when you become a celestial avatar. Inflict bleeding on enemies you immobilize or disable.

Soulbeast

• Second Skin — Conditions inflict less damage to you while you have protection.
• Twice as Vicious — Disabling a foe increases your damage and condition damage for a short duration.

Untamed

• Debilitating Blows — Disabling a foe applies conditions to that foe based on your current state. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Enhancing Impact — Disabling a foe grants you boons based on your current state. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Notes

• Duration of the merged pet heal is reduced from 5 seconds to 2 seconds.

Bug:

The cast duration is unaffected by  Quickness since the March 19, 2024 update.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 27, 2024	Oaken Cudgel has been added to the game. Increased the protection application radius from 240 to 360. This skill now applies a heal-over-time effect to your pet when used. This effect is reduced when merged as a soulbeast.
November 28, 2023	Oaken Cudgel was available during the beta event.