Surprise Strike

Surprise Strike

4m Range
Fast
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.

 +10% Positional Damage
 +100% Critical Magnitude
... (Main-hand) Damage
Cost: [135 at Level 150] Power
• Cooldown: 10s

General Information

Class: Burglar

Level: 1

Skill Interactions

While the Burglar is in Stealth (or is under the effects of  Combat Stealth or  Improved Feint), this skill becomes empowered, dealing additional damage. The skill is also empowered when  Feint is applied to the Burglar.

Stealthed Surprise Strike

4m Range
Fast
Melee Skill
Skill Type: Melee, Stealth
Strike the enemy, dealing more damage from behind or when Stealthed.

Critical hits with Surprise Strike are more damaging than most skills.
... (Main-hand) Damage
Cost: [135 at Level 150] Power
• Cooldown: 10s

While the Burglar is in Stealth (or is under the effects of  Combat Stealth or  Improved Feint) and in Blue-line, this skill becomes further empowered, dealing additional damage and randomly applying any Gamble, between  Damaging Gamble,  Debuffing Gamble and  Hedged Bet.

Gambler's Surprise Strike

4m Range
Fast
Melee Skill
Skill Type: Melee, Stealth
Strike the enemy, dealing more damage from behind or when Stealthed and applying a random colour gamble.

Critical hits with Surprise Strike are more damaging than most skills.
... (Main-hand) Damage
Cost: [135 at Level 150] Power
• Cooldown: 10s

Trait Interactions

• The set bonus  Improved Sneak in the Quiet Knife trait tree makes this skill guaranteed to land as a Critical Hit when used from Stealth.
  
• The trait  Strike From Shadows in the Quiet Knife trait tree increases the Critical Chance of this skill by 10% when used from Stealth.
  
• When specialized in the Gambler trait tree, this skill applies a random Gamble to the enemy target while used from Stealth (or is under the effects of Combat Stealth).
  
• The trait  Honed Wit in the Gambler trait tree increases the damage of Damaging Gamble by up to 25%.
  
• The trait  A Sure Thing in the Gambler trait tree increases the damage of Damaging Gamble by up to 15%.
  
• The set bonus  Dealings Done in the Gambler trait tree increases the damage of Damaging Gamble by 10%.
  

Tracery Interactions

• Surprise Strike Critical Chance & Backstab Bonus increases the Critical Chance of this skill by up to 5.5% and the Positional Damage bonus by up to 55%.
  
• Surprise Strike Damage increases the damage of this skill by up to 55%.
  
• Harmful Gamble Damage increases the damage of Damaging Gamble by up to 38.5%.
  
• Gamble Upgrade Chance makes this skill have up to a 33% chance to upgrade the Tier of Gambles if already applied on the enemy target.
  

Armour Set Interactions

Equipping both pieces of the Insignia of the Shagâni Fulcrum jewellery set acquired from the Legacy of Morgoth instances makes this effect have greater odds to land as a 4-6, and never land as a 1.

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.