Surprise Strike
- 3.5m 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. - (135 + 1.35 * Melee Offence)% of Main-hand + bonus Damage
- Cost: [183 at Level 140] Power
- Cooldown: 10s
General Information
Class: Burglar
Level: 1
Trait Information
The set bonus Improved Sneak in the Quiet Knife trait tree guarantees a critical hit with this skill when used from stealth.
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 this skill when used from stealth 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:
- Wearing 4 pieces of one of the Armour of the Shadow-walker sets gives a 10% chance to reset the cooldown of the skill after using it:
- Wearing 4 pieces of the Renewed Armour of a Burglar's Recollection increases the positional damage from stealth of this skill by 40%.
Tactical Information
This skill does major damage when in position or when in stealth (then it is replaced by 
Stealthed Surprise Strike) and critical hits with this skill have +100% critical magnitude. This makes the skill ideal to start a fight with, as it enables your Critical Response chain.
The skills 
Feint Attack and 
Improved Feint Attack also change this skill to the stealth version if used within 10 seconds.
In blue line, this skill is replaced by Gambler's Surprise Strike, which has a chance to apply a random gamble.
The Minstrel skill 
Call to Greatness sets the cooldown of this skill to five seconds while the buff lasts (15 seconds)