Pin Down

Fire an arrow that bleeds and immobilizes your target. — In-game description

Pin Down

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Weapon

Longbow

Game link

API

14504

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0.75¾  20  

Pin Down

Fire an arrow that bleeds and immobilizes your target.

 Damage: 169 (0.44)^?

₆ Bleeding (12s): 1,584 Damage

 Immobilize (3s): Unable to move.

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Arms

• Opportunist — Gain fury and adrenaline when you immobilize or disable a foe.
• Deep Strikes — Gain condition damage when you have fury. You have increased chance to critically strike against bleeding foes.
• Bloodlust — You have a chance to inflict bleeding on critical hits, and bleeds that you apply last longer.

Tactics

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

Notes

• It has a piercing effect while traveling to the target meaning that foes in between yourself and the target will get hit as well.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE only.
June 28, 2022	Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP and WvW.
April 19, 2016	The damage of this skill has been increased by 10%.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Longbow weapon skill range has been increased to 1200.
April 15, 2014	Added a new warm-up effect. Increased the cast time from .25 seconds to .75 seconds.
February 26, 2013	This ability now applies bleeding to targets that it hits.
December 14, 2012	Increased the velocity of arrows fired from Longbow skills by 30%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Pin Down has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.
• During production of the game, this skill was originally slotted as the warrior longbow burst skill.