Barbed Spear

This article is about the thief skill. For the unimplemented necromancer skill, see Barbed Spear (unimplemented).

Swing your spear. If your enemy is far away, throw your spear instead. — In-game description

Barbed Spear

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Game link

API

73145

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0.75¾  

Barbed Spear

Swing your spear. If your enemy is far away, throw your spear instead.

 Damage: 138 (0.375)^?

 Range Threshold: 240

 Bleeding (20.25¼s): 50 Damage

 Range: 240

— In-game description

Mechanics

Bug:

This skill has no cooldown when it fails to cast; other stealth attacks are placed on a 1 second cooldown when they fail.

Anomaly:

Without Quickness, this skill will trigger the trait Sundering Shade twice.

• In melee, this attack hits twice.
• The thrown spear has a range of 900 units.
• The thrown spear can be cast when facing away from the target.
  • Throwing spears behind you like this will cause autoattack to not trigger and you'll need to press the skill.

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Trickery

• Deadly Ambush — Stealing also applies bleeding. Bleeding you inflict deals more damage.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 20, 2024	Janthir Wilds release: Barbed Spear has been added to the game.
June 27, 2024	Barbed Spear was available during the Spear Beta Event.