Pistol Whip/history
June 25, 2024
- Increased the initial power coefficient from 0.37 to 0.74 in PvE only. Increased the flurry power coefficient from 0.79 to 1.0 in PvE only.
Pistol Whip
“Dual Wield. Pistol-whip your foe, stunning them, then slash repeatedly with your sword.
Initial Damage: 271 (0.74)? Initial Damage: 4 (0.01)? Damage (4x): 1,468 (4.0)? Damage (4x): 880 (2.4)? Stun: ¾ seconds Stun: ½ seconds- Defiance Break: 100
- Range: 130
— In-game description
February 28, 2022
- (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
Pistol Whip
“Dual Wield. Pistol-whip your foe, stunning them, then slash repeatedly with your sword.
Initial Damage: 136 (0.37)? Initial Damage: 4 (0.01)? Damage (4x): 1,160 (3.16)? Damage (4x): 880 (2.4)? Stun: ¾ seconds Stun: ½ seconds- Defiance Break: 100
- Range: 130
— In-game description
July 07, 2020
- Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
- Pistol Whip: Increased flurry hit power coefficient from 0.53 to 0.6 in PvP and WvW.
Pistol Whip
“Dual Wield. Pistol-whip your foe, stunning them, then slash repeatedly with your sword.
Initial Damage: 136 (0.37)? Initial Damage: 4 (0.01)? Damage (4x): 1,160 (3.16)? Damage (4x): 880 (2.4)? Stun: ¾ seconds Stun: ½ seconds- Range: 130
— In-game description
February 25, 2020
- Pistol Whip: (Competitive split) Reduced initial hit power coefficient from 0.37 to 0.01. Reduced stun duration from 0.75 seconds to 0.5 seconds. Reduced flurry hit power coefficients from 0.79 to 0.53. Increased initiative cost from 5 to 6.
Pistol Whip
“Dual Wield. Pistol-whip your foe, stunning them, then slash repeatedly with your sword.
Initial Damage: 136 (0.37)? Initial Damage: 4 (0.01)? Damage (4x): 1,160 (3.16)? Damage (4x): 776 (2.12)? Stun: ¾ seconds Stun: ½ seconds- Range: 130
— In-game description
August 09, 2017
- Pistol Whip: Fixed a bug that was causing this skill to show an incorrect number of hits when traited with Swindler's Equilibrium.
August 08, 2017
- Pistol Whip: Increased the stun duration to 0.75 seconds.
- Added an additional warning effect to Warmup.
- Reduced the number of flurry hits from 8 to 4, to match the animation. Flurry damage has been increased by 100% to compensate.
Pistol Whip
“Dual Wield. Pistol-whip your foe, stunning them, then slash repeatedly with your sword.
- Initial Damage: 136 (0.37)?
- Damage (4x): 1,160 (3.16)?
- Stun: ¾ seconds
- Range: 130
— In-game description
February 23, 2016
- Pistol Whip: Fixed a bug that caused this ability to display incorrect damage values in PvP.
- The initial strike of this ability has been combined between PvP and PvE (dealing the PvE damage values) and will no longer deal increased damage to crippled enemies.
Pistol Whip
“Dual Wield. Pistol-whip your foe, stunning them, then slash repeatedly with your sword.
- Initial Damage: 135 (0.3675)?
- Damage (8x): 1,152 (3.15)?
- Stun: ½ seconds
- Range: 130
— In-game description
June 23, 2015
- All skills categorized as dual-wield have received a 5% damage increase.
Pistol Whip
“Dual Wield. Pistol-whip your foe, stunning them, then slash repeatedly with your sword.
— In-game description
April 15, 2014
- Pistol Whip: This skill has been split between PvP and PvE. It will now cost 6 initiative in PvP, while maintaining a 5 initiative cost in PvE.
- Updated the skill facts to show the bonus damage from Combined Training.
- Added an evasion skill fact.
Pistol Whip
“Dual Wield. Pistol-whip your foe, stunning them, then slash repeatedly with your sword.
— In-game description
December 10, 2013
- Pistol—Pistol Whip: Reduced the aftercast on the first half of this skill by .25 seconds.
June 25, 2013
- Pistol Whip: Decreased the time between the stun and the sword flurry.
October 07, 2012
- Pistol Whip: Reduced damage by 15%
Pistol Whip
“Dual Wield. Pistol-whip your foe, stunning them, then slash repeatedly with your sword.
— In-game description
Original version
Pistol Whip
“Dual Wield. Pistol-whip your foe, stunning them, then slash repeatedly with your sword.
— In-game description