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. - ... (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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.