Spike Barrage

Beast. Fire a barrage of spikes at your target. — In-game description

Spike Barrage

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Pet

Bristleback

Slot

Pet (skill list)

Type

Beast

Game link

API

31367

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Spike Barrage

Beast. Fire a barrage of spikes at your target.

 Damage (10x): 4,550 (2.20)^?

 Damage (10x): 3,420 (1.65)^?

₁₀ Bleeding (5s): 1,100 Damage

₁₀ Bleeding (4s): 880 Damage

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Skirmishing

• Hidden Barbs — Bleeding you inflict is more dangerous.

Wilderness Survival

• Carnivore — Steal health from enemies when you or your pet disable them. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Poison Master — Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.

Nature Magic

• Rejuvenation — Beast skills now grant regeneration around the ranger.
• Invigorating Bond — Beast skills heal allies around the ranger.

Beastmastery

• Pack Alpha — Your pet's attributes are improved and pet skills gain recharge reduction. Improved attributes are power, condition damage, precision, toughness, and vitality.
• Go for the Eyes — Nearby foes are blinded by Beast abilities.
• Wilting Strike — Beast abilities inflict weakness on those struck. This effect will only occur once on each target struck by an ability.
• Beastly Warden — Beast abilities taunt nearby foes.

Soulbeast

• Live Fast — Using a Beast ability grants you offensive boons.
• Oppressive Superiority — Deal increased damage to foes at a lower health percentage than you. Conditions you apply to foes at a lower health percentage than you last longer.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	Increased the cooldown from 15 seconds to 20 seconds. This skill now inflicts bleeding when striking an enemy.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.22 to 0.165.
May 17, 2016	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to fire more projectiles than intended and reduced the overall projectiles to 10. Fixed a bug that caused 33% of the projectiles to deal 33% less damage than intended. Increased all projectile damage by 10%. Missiles are now fired directly at the target instead of at slight angles in the target's direction. The missile launch point has been normalized, fixing a bug that caused some projectiles to fail if the creature was on an incline.
February 24, 2016	Reduced the damage of this skill by 25%.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Spike Barrage has been added to the game.