Cauterizing Steel

Cauterizing Steel

4m Range
Fast
Melee Skill
Skill Type: Spear
A series of precision strikes hit your opponent with a red-hot weapon where already wounded.

This skill will consume any Power Attack, Mighty Blow, or Unerring Strike damage over time effects on your target, dealing bonus damage for each effect consumed.
3 Attacks:
... (Main-hand) Damage
... (Main-hand) Damage
... (Main-hand) Damage
-30% Cauterizing Steel Damage
Duration: 10s
Cost: [1,080 at Level 160] Power
Requires:
Clears All Gambits
• Cooldown: 0.8s

General Information

Class: Warden

Level: 47

Stance:  In the Fray - Stance

Effects

This skill is a Gambit, meaning that it requires a certain combination of builders, is activated by using the skill  Gambit Default, and upon use, resets the Gambit Panel.

Using this Gambit applies an invisible effect to the Warden that temporarily reduces the damage of the Gambit, disincentivizing its repeated use.

Using this skill consumes the following bleeds to deal bonus damage (Seared Flesh):

•  Power Attack Bleed
•  Mighty Blow Bleed
•  Unerring Strike Bleed

Skill Interactions

This skill is replaced by  Ranged Cauterizing Steel when toggling  Assailment - Stance.

Trait Interactions

Recklessness trait tree

• The trait  Close Quarters Combatant increases the damage of this skill by up to 10%.

• The trait  Way of the Spear increases the damage of this skill by up to 10%.

• The trait  No Respite for the Wicked makes this skill apply No Respite to the enemy target. Further ranks make this effect stack up to 3 times.

• The set bonus  Sharpened Spears increases the damage of this skill by 10%.

• The set bonus  Unconventional Strikes increases the damage of this skill by 5%.

• The set bonus  One After Another increases the damage of this skill by 10%.

• The set bonus  Martial Fury increases the damage of this skill by 10%.

• The trait  Warden's Triumph increases the damage of this skill by up to 15%.

Assailment trait tree

• The trait  Marked Targets makes this skill apply Marked Target to the enemy target. Further ranks increase the duration of the effect by up to 30 seconds.

• The trait  Enduring Assailment increases the duration of No Respite by up to 20 seconds.

See Mitigation Reduction Skills for a list of all skills that reduce enemy mitigations.

Tracery Interactions

• Marked and Diminished Target Potency increases the potency of Marked Target by up to 2.2%.
• Spear Gambit Damage increases the damage of this skill by up to 22%.
• Spear-shield Gambit Damage increases the damage of this skill by up to 33%.
• Gambit Debuff Duration increases the duration of No Respite by up to 11 seconds.

Armour Set Interactions

Lower-level Armour Sets
Level 150
Equipping 2 pieces of the Umbari Armour of the Scale-breaker armour set acquired from the Depths of Mâkhda Khorbo Raid increases the cashout damage of this skill by 15%. Equipping 4 pieces of the Umbari Armour of the Scale-breaker armour set makes this skill reset the active cooldown of all Mastery skills. Equipping 6 pieces of the Umbari Armour of the Scale-breaker armour set makes this skill spread Power Attack Bleed, Mighty Blow Bleed, and Unerring Strike Bleed, if applied on the enemy target, to all nearby enemies. Equipping 2 pieces of the Umbari Armour of Torn Skies armour set increases the duration of No Respite by 10 seconds.