Smoke Screen

Deception. Create a smoke screen that blocks missiles and blinds foes. — In-game description

Smoke Screen

 

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Deception

Training cost

4 Hero points

Game link

API

13065

“

0.5½  

25

45

45

 

Smoke Screen

Deception. Create a smoke screen that blocks missiles and blinds foes.

 Blindness (1s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Blocks Missiles

 Smoke Screen Duration: 7 seconds

 Smoke Screen Duration: 4 seconds

 Radius: 240

 Combo Field: Smoke

 Unblockable

— In-game description

Mechanics

Bugs:

• The tooltip is missing the fact that this skill pulses, and that it applies  Blinded on each pulse.
• While under the effects of  Quickness, the visuals/animation for this skill will last longer than the projectile block.

Related traits

Deadly Arts

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

Shadow Arts

• Cloaked in Shadow — Gaining stealth blinds nearby foes. Blinding a foe siphons health from them.

Deadeye

• Payback — When Renewing Gaze triggers, this trait restores a portion of the recharge time needed by your healing, utility, and elite skills. Excludes racial skills.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Reduced field duration from 7 seconds to 4 seconds in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased cooldown from 25 seconds to 45 seconds.
July 16, 2019	This skill now creates a ring instead of a line.
April 23, 2019	Skills that destroy missiles will now block missiles instead.
May 08, 2018	The cooldown of this skill is no longer split between game modes and will now use the lower 25-second cooldown in all modes.
March 27, 2018	Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP and WvW.
May 20, 2014	Added an unblockable skill fact.
April 15, 2014	Fixed a bug that sometimes caused this skill to appear at the target's position instead of the player's position.
April 30, 2013	No longer destroys unblockable missiles.
January 28, 2013	This skill's blinding pulse no longer follows the thief.
November 15, 2012	This skill's height has been increased to help it absorb projectiles.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Smoke Screen has been added to the game.