Forged Surfer Dash

Offensive Artifact. Dash to the targeted location while dropping bombs along your path that detonate after a short period of time, dealing damage and burning enemies. More bombs are dropped the farther you travel.

For a short time after using this skill, you continue to drop additional bombs at your location. — In-game description

Forged Surfer Dash

   

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Specialization

Antiquary

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Offensive Artifact

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

76633

This skill has an underwater replacement: Forged Surfer Dash (underwater)

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Forged Surfer Dash

Offensive Artifact. Dash to the targeted location while dropping bombs along your path that detonate after a short period of time, dealing damage and burning enemies. More bombs are dropped the farther you travel.

For a short time after using this skill, you continue to drop additional bombs at your location.

 Damage: 969 (2.4)^?

 Damage: 484 (1.2)^?

 Damage: 323 (0.8)^?

 Additional Bomb Damage: 484 (1.2)^?

 Burning (30.5½s): 459 Damage

 Burning (2s): 262 Damage

 Forged Surfer Dash (10s): Drop additional bombs at your location.

 Burning (6s): 786 Damage

 Burning (4s): 524 Damage

 Number of Targets: 3

 Max Bombs: 5

 Radius: 120

 Range: 600

— In-game description

Notes

Bug:

tooltip incorrectly states that damage coefficient of all bombs is 0.8 in PvP (instead of just the additional bombs), initial bomb coefficient remains at 1.2 in PvP^{[verification requested]}

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.
• Improvisation — Use stolen skills twice. Reduce the cooldown of all equipped utility skills when you steal. Cooldown effect will only trigger if all utility slots are filled and if at least one of your active utility skills is on cooldown. Does not affect inactive sequence skills.

Acrobatics

• Guarded Initiation — Movement skills grant resistance.
• Fluid Strikes — Gain increased strike damage for a period of time when you shadowstep or use a movement skill.

Antiquary

• Card Swap — Gain access to Reshuffle. Remove conditions from yourself whenever you reshuffle your artifacts or use an artifact skill.
• Prolific Plunderer — Gain an additional artifact slot. Whenever you pilfer, you gain an additional, random artifact. You can use one additional artifact when you pilfer with Skritt Swipe.
• Meticulous Custodian — Your artifacts have increased effectiveness. Beneficial artifact effects last longer.
• Exhilarating Ephemera — Gain increased damage for a period of time after using an artifact.
• Enterprising Aristocrat — Gain initiative and barrier whenever you use an artifact skill. You take reduced strike and condition damage whenever you have barrier.
• Possessive Hoarder — Artifacts grant boons to allies when used. Offensive and defensive artifacts grant different boons. Barrier granted through Magpie's Defense and Enterprising Aristocrat is now also granted to allies as well.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 03, 2026	Reduced the additional bomb damage coefficient from 1.2 to 0.8 and reduced the burning duration from 4 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only.
January 13, 2026	All artifacts now use the same weapon-type scaling when calculating damage, regardless of the weapon type equipped. Reduced the burning of additional bombs from 6 seconds to 3.5 seconds in PvE only. Reduced the burning of additional bombs when the Meticulous Custodian trait is equipped from 8 seconds to 4.5 seconds in PvE only. Reduced the power coefficient of additional bombs from 2.4 to 1.2 in PvE only. Reduced the power coefficient of additional bombs when the Meticulous Custodian trait is equipped from 2.8 to 1.4 in PvE only.
December 15, 2025	Fixed an issue that caused the traited version of this skill's passive effect to inflict more burning than expected.
December 09, 2025	Increased the radius of the bombs from 80 to 120. Fixed an issue that caused the burning count and duration of the bombs dropped by this skill's beneficial effect to differ from those dropped when the skill is activated.
October 28, 2025	Visions of Eternity release: Forged Surfer Dash has been added to the game. In addition to its previous effects, for a short period of time after using this skill, continue to drop additional bombs at your location every interval. Reduced the burning from 2 stacks for 10 seconds to 1 stack for 6 seconds.
August 19, 2025	Forged Surfer Dash was available during the Visions of Eternity elite specialization Beta Event.