Surprise Strike

Surprise Strike

2.5m Range
Melee Skill
Skill Type: Melee
Strike the enemy, dealing more damage from behind or when Stealthed.

Critical hits with Surprise Strike are more damaging than most skills.
117.8% Main-hand + bonus Damage
Cost: ... Power
• Cooldown: 10s

General Information

Class: Burglar

This skill is automatically acquired at level 1.

Traits

• The trait Strike From Shadows increases your chance to critical with this skill by 5%
• The trait Hidden Dagger reduces your target's avoidance rating against this skill by (Level × 20) while reducing your chance to miss by 5%

Interactions

• The Burglar Main Hand Major Legacy Surprise Strike Critical Rating will increase the critical rating of this skill
• The Burglar Main Hand Major Legacy Position Surprise Strike from Stealth will increase the Position Damage from Sneak of this skill by up to 25%
• Wearing 4 pieces of one of the Shadow-stalker Armour sets increases the positional and from-stealth damage of this skill:
  • Shadow-stalker Armour (Level 50): +20%
  • Shadow-stalker Armour (Level 60): +20%
  • Shadow-stalker Armour (Level 65): +30%
• Wearing 4 pieces of the Armour of the Shadow-walker sets gives a 10% chance to reset the cooldown of the skill
  • Armour of the Shadow-walker (Level 65)
  • Armour of the Shadow-walker (Level 85)
• The skills Feint Attack and Improved Feint Attack allows this skill, if used within 15 seconds, to operate as though you were attacking from stealth
• The Minstrel skill Call to Greatness sets the cooldown of this skill to five seconds while the buff lasts (15 seconds)

Tactical Information

This skill does major damage when in position. Striking from stealth makes this skill great. Use with Aim and Location is Everything.

During the fight, you only use with Aim when in position. If you're fighting your target from the front, it's more advised to use Cunning Attack (or other crit-chain skills) instead. This is a costly skill based on power.