Hilt Bash

This article is about the ranger greatsword skill. For the unimplemented warrior skill, see Hilt Bash (warrior). For other uses, see Bash.

Daze your foe with a hilt bash. Stun them if you hit from behind or they are defiant, and refresh your Maul ability. — In-game description

Animation

Hilt Bash

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Weapon

Greatsword

Game link

API

12475

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0.5½  20  

Hilt Bash

Daze your foe with a hilt bash. Stun them if you hit from behind or they are defiant, and refresh your Maul ability.

 Damage: 1,008 (2.5)^?

 Damage: 4 (0.01)^?

 Daze: 10.5½ seconds

 Stun: 10.5½ seconds

 Defiance Break: 300[sic]

 Range: 300

— In-game description

Related traits

Marksmanship

• Farsighted — Ranger weapon skills deal increased strike damage. Damage is further increased for foes above the range threshold.
• Moment of Clarity — Gain an attack of opportunity for you and your pet on interrupting a foe. Daze and stun durations that you inflict last longer. This trait can only grant an attack of opportunity against enemies with defiance bars once per interval.
• 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

• Quick Draw — When swapping weapons, gain quickness. The next ranger weapon skill you use will recharge faster.

Beastmastery

• Bestial Rage — Gain might and fury when you disable a foe.

Druid

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

Soulbeast

• Twice as Vicious — Disabling a foe increases your damage and condition damage for a short duration.

Untamed

• Debilitating Blows — Disabling a foe applies conditions to that foe based on your current state. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Enhancing Impact — Disabling a foe grants you boons based on your current state. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Galeshot

• Thrill of the Catch — Restore arrows when you or your pet disable an enemy.

Notes

• The description is misleading; the Maul refresh functionality of this skill is not contingent on this attack striking from behind.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
January 13, 2026	Reduced the cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE and PvP. Increased the damage multiplier from 2.25 to 2.5 in PvE only.
January 30, 2024	Increased the power coefficient from 0.72 to 2.25 in PvE only.
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.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
April 28, 2020	Increased cooldown from 20 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.72 to 0.01. Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds.
December 12, 2017	Increased damage by 42%.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Fixed a bug that was occasionally causing this skill to miss at near maximum range or strike a target behind you.
February 22, 2017	This skill should now land more consistently when used at max range. This skill no longer grants a damage bonus to pets, but it will now refresh the greatsword's Maul skill when striking an enemy.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Fixed a bug that prevented this ability from striking a foe near the maximum range.
September 09, 2014	Increased stun and daze durations to 1.5 seconds.
March 26, 2013	Reduced recharge from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Hilt Bash has been added to the game.