Crippling Shot

Fire an arrow that cripples your target. If you are flanking or behind your target or your target is defiant, immobilize them. Your pet's next three attacks inflict bleeding. — In-game description

Crippling Shot

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Weapon

Short bow

Game link

API

12507

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Crippling Shot

Fire an arrow that cripples your target. If you are flanking or behind your target or your target is defiant, immobilize them. Your pet's next three attacks inflict bleeding.

 Damage: 293 (0.8)^?

 Bleeding (15s): 330 Damage

 Cripple (4s): -50% Movement Speed

 Immobilize (10.5½s): Unable to move.

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Marksmanship

• Farsighted — Ranger weapon skills deal increased strike damage. Damage is further increased for foes above the range threshold.
• Predator's Onslaught — You and your pet deal increased strike damage to disabled, defiant, or movement-impaired foes. Affected conditions are stun, taunt, daze, cripple, fear, immobilize, and chilled.

Skirmishing

• Hidden Barbs — Bleeding you inflict is more dangerous.
• Quick Draw — When swapping weapons, gain quickness. The next ranger weapon skill you use will recharge faster.
• Light on your Feet — Damage and condition duration are increased after dodging or using a ranger skill that evades. Short bow skills pierce and gain recharge reduction, and their attacks from behind or while flanking or against defiant foes are improved.

Druid

• Blood Moon — Daze enemies when you become a celestial avatar. Inflict bleeding on enemies you immobilize or disable.

Soulbeast

• Oppressive Superiority — Deal increased damage to foes at a lower health percentage than you. Conditions you apply to foes at a lower health percentage than you last longer.

Notes

• When you use this skill your pet is buffed with  Bloodthirst for 11 seconds.
• Bloodthirst is applied when you activate the skill, not when its projectile hits a target.
• While in beastmode, the player's next few attacks inflict bleeding.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	The bleeding inflicted by your pet now uses the ranger's condition damage and condition duration attributes.
June 27, 2023	All effects that benefit when the player strikes from the flank or from behind now always apply their benefits when striking defiant foes.
June 08, 2021	The duration of bleeding applied by the pet's next three attacks is increased from 12 seconds to 15 seconds in all game modes.
January 22, 2019	The pet's next three attacks will now only apply bleeding for each successful strike.
May 16, 2017	This trait now immobilizes if you are beside your target, in addition to when you are behind your target.
October 18, 2016	In addition to its existing functionality, this skill will now immobilize your foe for 1.5 seconds if you are behind them.
April 19, 2016	The cripple duration has been increased from 3 seconds to 4 seconds. Base damage has been increased by 100%. The pet bleeding duration has been increased from 6 seconds to 12 seconds.
June 25, 2013	Decreased the range to 900. Increased the damage by 14%.
December 14, 2012	Increased the velocity of arrows fired from Short Bow and Longbow skills by 30%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Crippling Shot has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.
• Before Beta Weekend Event 2, the first sentence of the description of this skill used to be "Shatter your foe's dreams of becoming an adventurer with a single arrow to the knee." This was a reference to a line of dialogue in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, wherein its town guards profess that they "used to be an adventurer", until they "took an arrow in the knee."
• Barrage used the following icon prior to release: .