Charge (warrior skill)

This article is about a warrior skill. For other uses, see Charge.

Grant boons and remove movement-impairing conditions from allies. — In-game description

Charge

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Weapon

Warhorn

Game link

API

14393

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0.5½  

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15

 

Charge

Grant boons and remove movement-impairing conditions from allies.

 Swiftness (20s): +33% Movement Speed

 Swiftness (15s): +33% Movement Speed

 Quickness (2s): Skills and actions are faster.

 Quickness (3s): Skills and actions are faster.

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 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 600

 Combo Finisher: Blast

— In-game description

Related traits

Strength

• Aggressive Onslaught — Gain quickness when you disable an enemy. While you have quickness, your movement speed is increased. This stacks with other movement speed increases.

Tactics

• Roaring Reveille — Warhorn skills apply additional boons. Your concentration is increased.
• Empowered — Deal increased strike damage for every boon on you.

Discipline

• Warrior's Sprint — Run faster while wielding melee weapons, and deal increased strike damage while you have swiftness. Movement skills break immobilization when used.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 02, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 20 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP only. Reduced swiftness duration from 20 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP only.
October 04, 2022	Increased quickness duration from 2 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP only.
June 28, 2022	This skill no longer grants allies increased damage on their next two attacks. Instead, they grant 2 seconds of quickness to allies. Cooldown increased from 15 seconds to 20 seconds. Swiftness duration increased from 15 seconds to 20 seconds.
March 15, 2022	Number of targets decreased from 10 to 5 in PvE, matching the current target count in PvP/WvW.
October 26, 2021	Positive percentage-based enhancements now display with a "+." For example, swiftness now displays "+33% Movement Speed" instead of "33% Movement Speed."
March 09, 2021	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to grant fury when the Roaring Reveille trait was not equipped.
December 01, 2020	Warhorn Skills: Increased the maximum number of targets from 5 to 10 in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: PvP will now use the WvW version of the skill, which has a 10% damage bonus.
October 01, 2019	The icon for this skill has been updated. This skill now only removes movement-impairing conditions. It now increases the damage of affected allies' next 2 attacks by 25% (10% in WvW) for 8 seconds in addition to its previous effects. Increased swiftness duration from 10 seconds to 15 seconds. This skill is now a blast finisher.
July 10, 2018	This skill now removes torment and burning from allies in addition to its other effects.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Decreased the number of targets from 10 to 5.
April 15, 2014	Fixed the range skill fact to correctly display radius instead (1200).
August 28, 2012	Game release: Charge has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.
• The effect Charge, historically applied by this skill, increased damage by 25% in PvE and by 10% WvW and PvP.