Burst

Burst attacks or burst skills are a warrior profession mechanic that expend all built-up adrenaline. Each weapon has one burst skill that improves at three different stages of adrenaline. This improvement can be anything from doing more damage to increasing the duration of its effects; usually only one value is improved. The burst skill does not take a skill slot, being activated with F1 and is located just above the first five weapon skills, and is automatically chosen according to the two-handed weapon equipped or, in case of dual-wielding, the weapon equipped in the main hand.

Bursts carry a few different mechanics aside from standard skills. They can only be activated once the warrior has at least one full stage of adrenaline, which is, aside from using specific skills, only gained while in combat. However, bursts can still be used while not in combat, provided that the warrior has at least one full stage of adrenaline. If a burst attack fails to hit, e.g. due to being blinded or being interrupted while executing the attack, or if the attack simply does not connect with an enemy target in any way (like when used while out of combat) the burst skill will go on its effective recharge time, and all adrenaline will be spent. Most skills only grant any secondary effects if an enemy is hit.

Elite specialization changes

Core warrior functionality is retained until the first minor trait for the equipped elite specialization is trained.

Berserker — While in Berserk mode, Burst skills are replaced with Primal Burst skills.

Spellbreaker — Skills can only be used at adrenaline level 1. Gain access to   Full Counter.

Bladesworn — Core Burst skills are unavailable and replaced with Gunsaber.

Paragon — Skills can only be used at adrenaline level 1. Gain access to Chants.

List of burst skills

#	Skill	Weapon			Description	Adrenaline level improvement
Warrior
F1	Eviscerate	Axe		8	Burst. Leap at your foe with a devastating attack. Effect increases with adrenaline level.	Damage
F1	Breaching Strike	Dagger	0.75¾	8	Burst. Strike your target and remove boons. Deal more damage if your target has no boons.	Number of boons removed
F1	Skull Crack	Mace	0.5½	8	Burst. Stun your foe with a skull crack. Effect increases with adrenaline level.	Stun duration
F1	Flurry	Sword	0.5½	8	Burst. Immobilize your foes with a flurry of bleeding strikes. Effect increases with adrenaline level.	Immobile duration, number of hits
F1	Arcing Slice	Greatsword	0.5½	8	Burst. Deliver a circular attack to foes around you, and gain fury. Deal more damage to foes with low health.	Fury duration
F1	Earthshaker	Hammer	0.75¾	8	Burst. Jump to the targeted location and slam your hammer down, damaging and stunning foes.	Stun duration
F1	Combustive Shot	Longbow	0.75¾	8	Burst. Ignite target area, burning nearby foes. Effect increases with adrenaline level.	Area duration (number of pulses)
F1	Kill Shot	Rifle	10.25¼	8	Burst. Fire a powerful shot. Damage increases with adrenaline level. Deal increased damage to enemies that are affected by crowd control or below the health threshold.	Damage
F1	Path to Victory	Staff	0.5½	8	Burst. Carve a path to victory, dealing damage to enemies in front of you while healing and granting regeneration to nearby allies.	Healing
F1	Harrier's Toss	Spear	0.5½	8	Burst. Jump up and throw a spear at your targeted location, dealing damage in an area. Damage dealt is increased with adrenaline level, and the opponent closest to the epicenter takes additional damage.	Damage
F1	Whirling Strike	Spear	0.75¾	8	Burst. Strike all foes around you. Effect increases with adrenaline level.	Stun duration
F1	Forceful Shot	Harpoon gun	10.75¾	8	Burst. Fire a forceful shot. Damage increases with adrenaline level.	Damage
Spellbreaker
F2	Full Counter		10.5½	8	Burst. Absorb the next attack against you and counterattack all foes around you. Foes struck by the counter attack are interrupted.
Bladesworn
1	Dragon Slash—Force	Dragon Trigger	0.5½	1	Burst. Slash foes in front of you, ending Dragon Trigger. This attack consumes all charges to deal more damage.
2	Dragon Slash—Boost	Dragon Trigger		1	Burst. Dash forward while slashing all foes in a line, ending Dragon Trigger. This attack consumes all charges to deal more damage.
3	Dragon Slash—Reach	Dragon Trigger	0.5½	1	Burst. Slash to create a blade of air that strikes foes in a line in front of you, ending Dragon Trigger. This attack consumes all charges to deal more damage.
Paragon
F2	Chant of Action		0.25¼	8	Burst. Chant. Applies boons to allies in an area around you. Refrain. After activation, continually applies boons to allies while removing motivation every interval. This effect lasts until you run out of motivation stacks or another chant is activated. Gain increased effects depending on motivation stacks:
F3	Chant of Recuperation		0.25¼	15	Burst. Chant. Grants barrier to allies in an area around you. Refrain. After activation, continually pulses healing to allies while removing motivation stacks every interval. This effect lasts until you run out of motivation stacks or another chant is activated. Gain increased effects depending on motivation stacks:
F4	Chant of Freedom		0.25¼	25	Burst. Chant. Breaks stun from allies in an area around you. Refrain. After activation, continually applies swiftness to allies while removing motivation stacks every interval. This effect lasts until you run out of motivation stacks or another chant is activated. Gain increased effects depending on motivation stacks:

Related traits

See also: Primal Burst

• Building Momentum (Strength) — Burst skills restore endurance on hit.
• Berserker's Power (Strength) — Gain increased strike damage when you use a burst skill; this damage increase is based on your adrenaline.
• Sundering Burst (Arms) — Burst skills inflict vulnerability if they hit and inflict additional vulnerability if the attack is a critical hit. Can only occur once per interval per target for multihit burst skills.
• Burst Precision (Arms) — Burst skills have an increased critical chance. Gain bonus critical-hit chance and ferocity for a duration when you hit with a burst skill. Duration is based on adrenaline spent.
• Cull the Weak (Defense) — Deal increased strike damage to weakened foes. Burst skills inflict weakness. Can only occur once per interval per target for multihit burst skills.
• Adrenal Health (Defense) — Gain health based on adrenaline spent.
• Cleansing Ire (Defense) — Gain adrenaline when hit. Remove a condition when you hit with a burst skill, then remove an additional condition for every bar of adrenaline spent.
• Marching Orders (Tactics) — Periodically gain Soldier's Focus. Hitting with a burst skill expends Soldier's Focus to grant might to nearby allies.
• Versatile Power (Discipline) — Gain might on weapon swap. Burst skills gain reduced recharge.
• Heightened Focus (Discipline) — Gain quickness and recharge your Burst skills when you strike a foe that is below the health threshold. Gain increased outgoing healing when you strike with a Burst skill, based on adrenaline spent.
• Burst Mastery (Discipline) — Burst skills deal more damage, grant swiftness, and restore a portion of adrenaline spent.
• Heat the Soul (Berserker) — Grant boons to nearby allies when you use a Burst skill.
• Attacker's Insight (Spellbreaker) — Gain Insight when disabling foes or removing boons. Full Counter refreshes all burst skills on hit. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt and fear.
• Magebane Tether (Spellbreaker) — Hitting with a burst skill casts Magebane Tether on your target if they are within range.

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