Pure Strike (trait)

This article is about the trait. For the skill, see Pure Strike.

Deal increased critical-hit damage. This bonus is doubled against boonless foes. — In-game description

Pure Strike

Specialization

Spellbreaker (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

“

Pure Strike

Deal increased critical-hit damage. This bonus is doubled against boonless foes.

 Critical Damage Increase: 5%

 Critical Damage Increase: 7%

 Boonless Critical Damage Increase: 10%

 Boonless Critical Damage Increase: 14%

— In-game description

Mechanics

Anomaly:

Instead of increasing the Critical Damage attribute like the tooltip implies, this acts as a 5/10% multiplicative strike damage modifier only applied to critical hits.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this trait.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 14, 2026	Reduced the damage increase from 7.5/15% to 5/10% in PvE only.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Damage bonus increased from 7%/14% to 7.5%/15%.
September 22, 2017	Path of Fire release: Pure Strike has been added to the game.