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

Movement

Leap

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: 293 (0.8)^?

 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

• Guarded Initiation — Movement skills grant resistance.
• 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
August 23, 2024	Fixed an issue that prevented this skill from consuming initiative at the start of its cast.
August 20, 2024	Janthir Wilds release: Unsuspecting Strike has been added to the game. Fixed an issue that caused this skill to be affected by movement speed. Using a lead attack skill will now always enable follow-up skills unless the skill is interrupted.
June 27, 2024	Unsuspecting Strike was available during the Spear Beta Event.