Impale (warrior sword skill)

This article is about the warrior sword skill. For other skills of the same name, see Impale.

Throw your sword at your foe to impale them. — In-game description

Impale

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Weapon

Off hand sword

Sequence

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Game link

API

14498

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0.5½  15  

Impale

Throw your sword at your foe to impale them.

 Damage: 550 (1.5)^?

 Damage: 440 (1.2)^?

₅ Torment (8s): 880 Damage, 1,272 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

₅ Cripple (1s): -50% Movement Speed

 Duration: 4 seconds

 Interval: 1 second

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Arms

• Blademaster — Gain expertise. Gain condition damage while wielding a sword. Sword skills gain reduced recharge.

Tactics

• Leg Specialist — Immobilize a target when you cripple them with a skill. Deal increased strike damage to foes affected with movement-impairing conditions.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 20, 2024	Janthir Wilds release: Reduced the damage coefficient from 1.5 to 1.2 in PvP only.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Damage multiplier increased from 0.5 to 1.5.
July 07, 2020	Impale now applies a pulsing 1-second cripple in addition to torment. Successfully using the Rip ability now grants 10 stacks of might for 5 seconds.
October 02, 2018	The projectile velocity has been increased by 66%.
September 09, 2014	Lowered the duration of torment from 12 seconds to 8 seconds.
April 15, 2014	The time this skill is active has been reduced from 10 seconds to 4 seconds. Torment is now applied every second that the skill is active, rather than every 3 seconds. Reduced the number of torment stacks when the missile hits from 2 to 1 to compensate for the increase in pulses, so that the number of stacks remains the same. This skill will no longer fire at enemies behind the warrior.
July 23, 2013	This skill now applies torment instead of bleeding. Two stacks of torment are now applied upon the sword's impact.
February 26, 2013	This ability's cooldown has been reduced to 15 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Impale has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.
• This skill's Bleeding was replaced with Torment because Bleeding used to only stack up to 25 times.