Tactical Strike/history
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This page contains information about a Guild Wars 2 skill that has been updated since its introduction. Some of the information on this page no longer applies to the game as it currently exists. For the current version of this skill, see Tactical Strike. |
August 20, 2024
- Tactical Strike: Reduced the power coefficient from 1.33 to 1.1 in PvP only.
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Tactical StrikeStealth Attack. Daze your foe by bashing them with your sword hilt. Daze them for a longer duration if you attack from behind or they are defiant. Applies vulnerability.
Daze: 1 second
10 Vulnerability (5s): +10% Incoming Damage, +10% Incoming Condition Damage
Defiance Break: 100
Range: 170
— In-game description
June 25, 2024
- Increased the power coefficient from 1.33 to 2.0 in PvE only. Increased the daze duration while behind the enemy from 2 seconds to 3 seconds in PvE only.
“1Tactical StrikeStealth Attack. Daze your foe by bashing them with your sword hilt. Daze them for a longer duration if you attack from behind or they are defiant. Applies vulnerability.
— In-game description
March 19, 2024
- This skill now dazes for 1 second instead of blinding when striking from the front. Increased the power coefficient from 1.0 to 1.33.
“1Tactical StrikeStealth Attack. Daze your foe by bashing them with your sword hilt. Daze them for a longer duration if you attack from behind or they are defiant. Applies vulnerability.
Damage: 488 (1.33)?
— In-game description
February 28, 2022
- (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
“1Tactical StrikeStealth Attack. Blind your foe by bashing them with your sword hilt. Daze them instead if you attack from behind. Applies vulnerability.
Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.
— In-game description
July 07, 2020
- Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
“1Tactical StrikeStealth Attack. Blind your foe by bashing them with your sword hilt. Daze them instead if you attack from behind. Applies vulnerability.
— In-game description
July 10, 2018
- Tactical Strike: This attack now applies 10 stacks of vulnerability for 5 seconds on hit. This change extends to the deadeye variant Malicious Tactical Strike.
“1Tactical StrikeStealth Attack. Blind your foe by bashing them with your sword hilt. Daze them instead if you attack from behind. Applies vulnerability.
Daze: 2 seconds
— In-game description
September 23, 2017
- Tactical Strike: Fixed a bug in which this skill did less damage than intended.
August 08, 2017
- Tactical Strike: This skill has been unsplit and now dazes for 2 seconds in all game modes when attacking from behind.
- Increased the damage by 33%.
“1Tactical StrikeStealth Attack. Blind your foe by bashing them with your sword hilt. Daze them instead if you attack from behind.
— In-game description
July 26, 2016
- All stealth attack skills will now have a 1-second recharge between uses.
“1Tactical StrikeStealth Attack. Blind your foe by bashing them with your sword hilt. Daze them instead if you attack from behind.
— In-game description
July 23, 2013
- Tactical Strike: Fixed the damage skill fact to display the proper amount of damage done.
“Tactical StrikeStealth Attack. Blind your foe by bashing them with your sword hilt. Daze them instead if you attack from behind.
— In-game description
April 30, 2013
- Skills that must be performed from stealth are now labeled as "Stealth Attack."
“Tactical StrikeStealth Attack. Blind your foe by bashing them with your sword hilt. Daze them instead if you attack from behind.
— In-game description
November 15, 2012
- Tactical Strike: This skill's damage has been increased by 10% in all formats.
- This skill's daze duration has been reduced from 2 seconds to 1.5 seconds in PvP.
“Tactical StrikeStealth Attack. Blind your foe by bashing them with your sword hilt. Daze them instead if you attack from behind.
— In-game description
October 24, 2012
- Stealth skills now always apply the Revealed' buff when they hit their target (this update was not originally documented )
Original version
“Tactical StrikeBlind your foe by bashing them with your sword hilt. Daze them instead if you attack from behind.
— In-game description
