Stalker's Strike

Stab and poison your foe while evading attacks. This attack deals increased damage and poison against movement-impaired foes. — In-game description

Stalker's Strike

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Weapon

Off hand dagger

Game link

API

12478

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Stalker's Strike

Stab and poison your foe while evading attacks. This attack deals increased damage and poison against movement-impaired foes.

 Damage: 220 (0.6)^?

₃ Poison (8s): 804 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Damage Increase: 100%

₂ Additional Poison (8s): 536 Damage, -33% Heal Effectiveness

 Evade: 10.25¼ seconds

 Range: 250

— In-game description

Related traits

Marksmanship

• Farsighted — Ranger weapon skills deal increased strike damage. Damage is further increased for foes above the range threshold.

Skirmishing

• Primal Reflexes — When you successfully evade an attack, gain vigor.
• Quick Draw — When swapping weapons, the next ranger weapon skill you use will recharge faster.

Wilderness Survival

• Ambidexterity — Gain condition damage. Gain additional condition damage while wielding a torch, dagger, or mace. Torch and dagger skills recharge faster.
• Poison Master — Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.

Soulbeast

• Predator's Cunning — When you apply poison to a foe, steal some health from them.
• 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 07, 2023	Increased the cooldown from 12 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only.
May 02, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 15 seconds to 12 seconds in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 10 seconds to 15 seconds.
October 01, 2019	Base damage of this attack has been increased by 200%. This attack now deals double damage and inflicts 2 additional poison stacks if it strikes a foe with a movement-impairing condition.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This skill now applies 3 stacks of poison for 8 seconds.
June 25, 2013	This skill no longer loses evade duration when traited with Off-Hand Training. It now strikes targets more reliably in melee. It now functions with Off-Hand Training in PvE.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Stalker's Strike has been added to the game.