Unsuspecting Strike

Lead Attack. Leap at your foe and inflict conditions. Inflict additional stacks against foes above the health threshold. — In-game description

Unsuspecting Strike

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Activ. type

Chain

Sequence

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Game link

API

72986

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0.75¾  3  

Unsuspecting Strike

Lead Attack. Leap at your foe and inflict conditions. Inflict additional stacks against foes above the health threshold.

 Damage: 298 (0.8125)^?

 Damage: 110 (0.3)^?

 Health Threshold: 90%

₁ Vulnerability (6s): +1% Incoming Damage, +1% Incoming Condition Damage

₁ Bleeding (6s): 132 Damage

 Additional Stacks vs. High Health: 3

 Additional Stacks vs. High Health: 2

 Range: 480

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

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

Acrobatics

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

Trickery

• Lead Attacks — Increases all damage dealt per initiative spent. Steal gains reduced recharge time.
• Deadly Ambush — Stealing also applies bleeding. Bleeding you inflict deals more damage.

Notes

• As this skill is a Lead Attack, hitting a foes will progress both attack chains on the spear, granting access to Vampiric Slash (this skill's Follow Up skill) and Entangling Asp (Mantis Sting's Follow Up skill).

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2024	Unsuspecting Strike was available during the Spear Beta Event.