Panic Strike

Immobilizing a foe poisons them. Striking a foe below the health threshold immobilizes them. — In-game description

Panic Strike

Specialization

Deadly Arts (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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30

Panic Strike

Immobilizing a foe poisons them. Striking a foe below the health threshold immobilizes them.

 Health Threshold: 50%

 Immobilize (20.5½s): Unable to move.

 Immobilize (10.5½s): Unable to move.

 Poison (4s): 134 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Poison (1s): 34 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

— In-game description

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Recall Axes — Axe
•   Harrowing Storm — Axe
•   Orchestrated Assault — Axe
•   Bola Shot — Pistol
•   Infiltrator's Strike — Sword
•   Surprise Shot — Short bow
•   Entangling Asp — Spear
•   Spotter's Shot — Rifle
•   Malicious Surprise Shot — Short bow
•   Measured Shot — Scepter

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Thousand Needles
•   Devourer Venom — Venom
•   Impairing Daggers — Physical
•   Binding Shadow — Cantrip

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Throw Chain — Stolen skill
•   Throw Gunk — Stolen skill
•   Throw Net — Stolen skill
•   Throw Vine — Stolen skill
•   Unstable Artifact — Stolen skill
•   Steal Mobility — Stolen skill

Related traits

Traits that improve this trait

Deadly Arts

• 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.

Notes

• There isn't a cooldown for applying Poisoned on immobilize.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced poison duration from 2 seconds to 1 second.
March 27, 2018	Increased the cooldown from 20 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP and WvW. The WvW version of this trait will now use the PvP immobilize duration of 1.5 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Reduced the duration of poison applied by this trait from 4 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP and WvW.
May 16, 2017	In addition to its previous effect, this trait now causes you to apply 1 stack of poison for 4 seconds to foes that you immobilize. Immobilize duration has been reduced from 2.5 seconds to 1.5 seconds in PvP only.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Master tier.
September 09, 2014	Reduced the immobilized duration from 4 seconds to 2.5 seconds. Reduced the cooldown of this trait from 30 seconds to 20 seconds.
June 25, 2013	Reduced the cooldown from 60 seconds to 30 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Panic Strike has been added to the game.