Tow Line

Throw a spear that pulls enemies to you. Gain stealth and access to Hooked Spear if this skill hits. — In-game description

Tow Line

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Sequence

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Game link

API

13070

This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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0.5½  4  

Tow Line

Throw a spear that pulls enemies to you. Gain stealth and access to Hooked Spear if this skill hits.

 Damage: 183 (0.5)^?

 Cripple (5s): -50% Movement Speed

 Hooked Spear (8s): Now has access to the Hooked Spear ability.

 Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.

 Pull: 600

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Defiance Break: 150

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Critical Strikes

• Hidden Killer — Gain bonus critical-hit chance while stealthed. This bonus lingers for a short duration after you've been revealed.

Shadow Arts

• Merciful Ambush — Heal when you enter or exit stealth. Stealth yourself and your target when reviving an ally. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Shadow's Embrace — Remove conditions when you enter or exit stealth. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Meld with Shadows — Gain superspeed when you enter or exit stealth.
• Leeching Venoms — Venom utility skills siphon life from struck foes. Gain stacks of Spider Venom when you enter or exit stealth. Siphoning can only occur once per strike.
• Cloaked in Shadow — Gaining stealth blinds nearby foes. Blinding a foe siphons health from them.
• Cover of Shadow — Gain protection when you enter or exit stealth. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Shadow's Rejuvenation — Gain initiative when you enter or exit stealth.

Acrobatics

• Assassin's Reward — Heal yourself whenever you use a skill that uses initiative. Heal yourself for each point of initiative spent.

Trickery

• Pressure Striking — Enemies you interrupt are inflicted with torment. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• Lead Attacks — Increases all damage dealt per initiative spent. Steal gains reduced recharge time.

Daredevil

• Impacting Disruption — Enemies that you interrupt suffer a pulmonary impact. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Specter

• Panaku's Ambition — Gain barrier when you strike foes with a stealth attack. When you apply stealth to allies you also grant them barrier. This effect can only be received once and will reset when stealth is removed.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
May 08, 2018	Increased this skill's cripple duration from 3 seconds to 5 seconds. It now pulls the target to the thief if the missile successfully hits, and then grants the thief stealth. After hitting an enemy, this skill becomes Hooked Spear for the next 8 seconds.
July 23, 2013	Increased the skill-fact range to 900 to match the actual skill range.
December 14, 2012	This skill is now a projectile finisher.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Tow Line has been added to the game.