Final Thrust

Strike your foe with a final powerful thrust that does extra damage and inflicts bleeding against foes below the health threshold. — In-game description

Animation

Final Thrust

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand sword

Game link

API

14497

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0.5½  12  

Final Thrust

Strike your foe with a final powerful thrust that does extra damage and inflicts bleeding against foes below the health threshold.

 Damage: 550 (1.5)^?

 Damage against low-health foes: 1,100 (3.0)^?

 Damage against low-health foes: 734 (2.0)^?

 Health Threshold: 50%

₃ Bleeding (8s): 528 Damage

₆ Bleeding Against Low-Health Foes (8s): 1,056 Damage

 Number of Targets: 3

 Range: 130

— In-game description

Related traits

Arms

• Deep Strikes — Gain condition damage when you have fury. You have increased chance to critically strike against bleeding foes.
• Blademaster — Gain expertise. Gain condition damage while wielding a sword. Sword skills gain reduced recharge.
• Bloodlust — You have a chance to inflict bleeding on critical hits, and bleeds that you apply last longer.

Notes

• This skill cleaves.
• Extra damage also affects objects under 50% health.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
March 19, 2024	Increased the power coefficient from 1.0 to 1.5 in PvP and WvW. The power coefficient when striking a low-health target is unchanged.
February 14, 2023	This skill now inflicts a reduced amount of bleeding to targets above 50% health. Reduced cooldown from 15 seconds to 12 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced base power coefficient from 1.5 to 1.0. Reduced bonus power coefficient from 3.0 to 2.0. Increased cooldown from 12 seconds to 15 seconds.
July 11, 2018	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from receiving the duration increase when traited with Blademaster.
July 10, 2018	In addition to its previous effects, this skill now inflicts 6 stacks of bleeding for 8 seconds if it hits a foe when their health is below 50%.
January 26, 2016	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.
October 15, 2013	This ability now uses a more fluid animation.
June 25, 2013	This skill has been moved to slot #3. Now it does more damage and extra damage versus foes whose health is below 50%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Final Thrust has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.