Crippling Talon

Throw a dagger to bleed and cripple your foe. — In-game description

Crippling Talon

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Weapon

Off hand dagger

Game link

API

12477

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0.5½  1  2  

Crippling Talon

Throw a dagger to bleed and cripple your foe.

 Damage: 330 (0.9)^?

 Damage: 183 (0.5)^?

 Cripple (4s): -50% Movement Speed

₃ Bleeding (6s): 396 Damage

₄ Bleeding (9s): 792 Damage

 Maximum Count: 2

 Count Recharge: 15 seconds

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Range: 1,200

— 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.

Wilderness Survival

• Ambidexterity — Gain condition damage. Gain additional condition damage while wielding a torch, dagger, or mace. Torch and dagger skills recharge faster.

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.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 02, 2023	Increased bleeding from 3 stacks for 6 seconds to 4 stacks for 9 seconds in PvP only.
June 30, 2022	Damage multiplier increased from 0.75 to 0.9 in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.75 to 0.5.
December 03, 2019	Fixed a visual bug.
October 01, 2019	This skill now uses the ammunition system and has 2 ammo with a 15-second count recharge time and a 1-second recharge between uses. Reduced cripple duration from 6 seconds to 4 seconds. Reduced bleeding duration from 8 seconds to 6 seconds.
August 28, 2018	The aftercast of this skill has been reduced by approximately 0.5 seconds.
July 28, 2015	Increased the range to 1200.
August 20, 2013	The projectile thrown will now travel the full distance when traited with Off-Hand Training.
June 25, 2013	This skill now functions with Off-Hand Training in PvE.
February 26, 2013	Cooldown of this ability has been reduced from 18 seconds to 15 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Crippling Talon has been added to the game.