Dagger Storm

Trick. Spin around, reflecting projectiles and throwing daggers that cripple and bleed nearby foes. You can move while spinning. — In-game description

Dagger Storm

 

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Slot

Elite

Type

Trick

Activ. type

Channeled

Training cost

9 Hero points

Game link

API

13085

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20.75¾  

60

90

 

Dagger Storm

Trick. Spin around, reflecting projectiles and throwing daggers that cripple and bleed nearby foes. You can move while spinning.

 Damage: 354 (1.33)^?

 Damage: 106 (0.4)^?

₂ Bleeding (7s): 308 Damage

 Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed

 Movement Speed Increase: 100%

 Dagger Storm Duration: 20.75¾ seconds

 Combo Finisher: Whirl

 Evade: 3 seconds

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Mechanics

• Applies  Dagger Storm while casting.
• Unaffected by  Quickness or  Slow.
• Fires up to 8 daggers, at a rate of about one per 0.34 seconds.
  • The number of daggers fired is inversely related to the distance between the foes and the thief, with one dagger fired if all foes are at maximum range, and 8 fired if the thief is standing directly on top of a foe.
  • Each dagger deals the listed damage.
  • Each dagger bounces once and hits an additional nearby foe.
• Targets are selected randomly. However:
  • Nearby enemies are more likely to be selected than further-away enemies.
  • The skill will attempt to attack as many different targets as possible.
•  Combo Finisher: Whirl activates 25 times.

Related traits

Deadly Arts

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

Acrobatics

• Instant Reflexes — Gain evasion when you use an elite skill.
• Feline Grace — Gain vigor upon successfully evading an attack.
• Swindler's Equilibrium — Gain power and additional power while wielding a sword or underwater spear. Successfully evading an attack while wielding a sword or underwater spear recharges Steal.
• Upper Hand — Gain initiative when you dodge, and gain initiative and regeneration when you evade an attack. Evading can only trigger this trait once per interval.

Trickery

• Trickster — Tricks remove conditions.
• Deadly Ambush — Stealing also applies bleeding. Bleeding you inflict deals more damage.

Daredevil

• Escapist's Fortitude — Gain health when you successfully evade an attack. Remove a condition whenever you evade an attack.

Deadeye

• Payback — When Renewing Gaze triggers, this trait restores a portion of the recharge time needed by your healing, utility, and elite skills. Excludes racial skills.

Antiquary

• Magpie's Defense — Grant yourself barrier when you use a healing or elite skill. The cooldowns for this trait are separate for healing and elite skills.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	Increased the bleeding stacks from 1 to 2 and the bleeding duration from 5 to 7 in PvE only.
June 25, 2024	Reduced the cooldown from 90 seconds to 60 seconds in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.4 in PvP and WvW.
July 16, 2019	Reduced the casting time by 30%. Increased damage by 33% in PvE only.
October 02, 2018	This skill no longer grants the thief stability.
August 28, 2018	This skill now grants evade while casting in addition to its other effects. Its cooldown has been increased to 90 seconds.
May 08, 2018	The cooldown of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the lower 60-second cooldown in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Reduced the cooldown from 90 seconds to 60 seconds in PvP and WvW.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Reduced the duration from 8 seconds to 4 seconds, but doubled the number of daggers thrown. Now gives 1 stack of stability for 6 seconds on activation instead of pulsing stacks. This skill now increases movement speed by 100% while activated. Changed the system that limited hits on the same target to be more consistent for multiple thieves using the skill at the same time.
July 26, 2016	This skill can no longer be affected by quickness or slow.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This ability is now classified as a trick.
March 16, 2015	This skill now grants 3 stacks of stability every 3 seconds, with a 3-second duration.
July 01, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to continue creating whirl projectiles after the combo field it was using expired.
June 03, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused the projectile reflection effect to last longer than the skill animation.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Dagger Storm has been added to the game.