Shackling Wave

Slice through the air, sending a wave of energy from the Mists toward your foe and dealing rapid strikes. Immobilize duration is increased per target you strike. — In-game description

Shackling Wave

Profession

Revenant (skill list)

Weapon

Off hand sword

Game link

API

28472

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Shackling Wave

Slice through the air, sending a wave of energy from the Mists toward your foe and dealing rapid strikes. Immobilize duration is increased per target you strike.

 Initial Damage: 440 (1.2)^?

 Additional Strikes (5x): 735 (2.0)^?

 Initial Damage: 37 (0.1)^?

 Additional Strikes (5x): 365 (1.0)^?

 Immobilize Duration per Target (1s): Unable to move.

₈ Vulnerability (5s): +8% Incoming Damage, +8% Incoming Condition Damage

₁₂ Vulnerability (5s): +12% Incoming Damage, +12% Incoming Condition Damage

 Number of Targets: 3

 Range: 450

— In-game description

Related traits

Corruption

• Pact of Pain — Conditions you apply to foes last longer, but conditions applied to you also last longer.

Salvation

• Words of Censure — Blinding, immobilizing, or affecting a foe with crowd control heals nearby allies. Skills that strike many foes at the same time can heal multiple times.

Devastation

• Targeted Destruction — Deal increased strike damage to targets based on their vulnerability stacks.
• Dance of Death — Applying vulnerability to foes grants stacks of Battle Scars. The healing from Battle Scars is increased while you are below the health threshold.

Notes

• The additional strikes from this skill are single target, and are shared across all of the targets within range.
• Most of the cast time is the windup, whereas the hits are backloaded into the last ~0.5 seconds.
• Triggers Impossible Odds 3 times.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 29, 2022	(PvE only) Increased power coefficient of initial strike from 1.0 to 1.2. Increased power coefficient of additional strikes from 0.35 to 0.4.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced initial strike power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.1. Increased vulnerability stacks from 8 to 12.
July 16, 2019	Reduced the damage of secondary strikes by 20% in PvP and WvW.
March 05, 2019	Increased this skill's damage per each additional strike by 40% in PvE only.
December 11, 2018	The casting animation of this skill has been increased from just over 0.5 seconds to a little under 1 second to allow for better counterplay. Added a visual indicator to the skill's warm-up animation.
November 07, 2017	This skill has been reworked and will now deliver up to 5 strikes to random enemies in the area in addition to its initial impact. Immobilize duration has been reduced to 1 second and is increased by 1 second to all targets per target struck. Base damage of this skill has been reduced by 20%. Bonus strikes are equal to 25% of the initial impact each. The cooldown of this skill has been set at 15 seconds, while the energy cost is set at 10.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Increased damage by 66%. This attack now inflicts 8 stacks of vulnerability for 5 seconds. The range has been increased from 300 to 450.
April 19, 2016	The immobilize duration has been increased from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds. This skill is now available naturally during the course of Duelist's Preparation. Blocking an attack will extend the availability of the skill beyond the blocking duration.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Shackling Wave has been added to the game.