Impaling Lotus

Evade attacks and hurl damaging daggers, dealing multiple conditions to enemies. — In-game description

Impaling Lotus

Profession

Thief (trait skill list)

Specialization

Daredevil

Trait

 Lotus Training

Movement

Leap

Game link

API

31267

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Impaling Lotus

Evade attacks and hurl damaging daggers, dealing multiple conditions to enemies.

 Damage: 50 (0.1875)^?

 Damage: 17 (0.0625)^?

₂ Bleeding (4s): 176 Damage

 Bleeding (10.5½s): 33 Damage

 Torment (4s): 88 Damage, 127 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Torment (10.5½s): 33 Damage, 48 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

 Cripple (3s): -50% Movement Speed

 Cripple (1s): -50% Movement Speed

 Number of Impacts: 3

 Number of Targets: 3

 Missile Radius: 360

 Distance Traveled: 300

 Combat Only

 Evade: 0.75¾ seconds

 Combo Finisher: Whirl

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

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

Acrobatics

• Feline Grace — Gain vigor upon successfully evading an attack.
• Guarded Initiation — Movement skills grant resistance.
• 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

• 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.
• Lotus Training — Your dodge ability now uses Impaling Lotus, firing daggers at nearby enemies. Gain increased condition damage for a period of time when dodging.

Notes

Bug:

This skill applies two stacks of Torment on hit despite the tooltip saying only one.

• This ability can target and hit stealthed enemies.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Reduced the torment duration of Impaling Lotus from 6 seconds to 4 seconds in PvE only. Reduced the bleeding duration of Impaling Lotus from 8 seconds to 4 seconds in PvE only.
June 24, 2025	Projectiles from this skill can now only hit their original target in all game modes. Increased the bleeding stacks from 1 to 2, and reduced the bleeding duration from 15 seconds to 8 seconds in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.1875 to 0.0625. Reduced bleeding duration from 4 seconds to 1.5 seconds. Reduced torment duration from 4 seconds to 1.5 seconds. Increased bonus condition damage from 10% to 15%.
July 10, 2018	The PvP and WvW version of the effects for this trait have been modified, with bleeding duration being reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Impaling Lotus: Reduced duration of conditions applied by this skill by 50% in PvP and WvW.
November 17, 2015	Lotus Training - Impaling Lotus: Fixed a bug that caused this trait to fire the attack when the thief was out of combat.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Impaling Lotus has been added to the game.