Palm Strike

Physical. Strike your foe once to deal massive damage and stun them, marking your target with a Pulmonary Impact. — In-game description

Palm Strike

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Daredevil

Slot

Utility

Type

Physical

Sequence

 → 

Game link

API

30693

“

0.5½  

Palm Strike

Physical. Strike your foe once to deal massive damage and stun them, marking your target with a Pulmonary Impact.

 Damage: 465 (1.75)^?

 Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

 Second Strike Damage: 872 (3.28)^?

₂ Pulmonary Impact (2s): Explosively damaging attack.

 Stun: 2 seconds

 Defiance Break: 200

 Range: 130

— In-game description

Related traits

Trickery

• Pressure Striking — Enemies you interrupt are inflicted with torment. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Daredevil

• Brawler's Tenacity — Physical skills grant endurance when activated.
• Impacting Disruption — Enemies that you interrupt suffer a pulmonary impact. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Notes

Bugs:

• Although the tool-tip lists Second Strike Damage, it's just listing   Pulmonary Impact per instance. Technically double what it is listed, but significantly lower in WvW/PvP.
• The tool-tip in WvW/PvP is actually:

 Second Strike Damage: 199 (0.75)^?

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced initial power coefficient from 1.75 to 0.01.
March 27, 2018	Pulmonary Impact: Reduced damage by 29% in PvP and WvW.
May 16, 2017	This skill now applies two instances of Pulmonary Impact on a successful hit. Pulmonary Impact: The damage of this effect has been reduced by 15% in PvP only.
October 18, 2016	Pulmonary Impact: Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from doing damage while a thief was in the air.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Palm Strike has been added to the game.

Trivia

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