Sneak Attack

Stealth Attack. Sneak attack with rapid fire from your pistol and make your foe bleed. — In-game description

Sneak Attack

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand pistol

Type

Stealth Attack

Game link

API

13115

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Sneak Attack

Stealth Attack. Sneak attack with rapid fire from your pistol and make your foe bleed.

 Damage (5x): 660 (1.8)^?

 Damage (5x): 550 (1.5)^?

₅ Bleeding (5s): 550 Damage

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Even the Odds — Apply vulnerability when you steal. Gain might when you hit with a stealth attack.
• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Critical Strikes

• Sundering Shade — Stealth Attack skills inflict vulnerability and grant fury upon successfully hitting foes.
• Deadly Aim — Your pistol and harpoon gun attacks now pierce and have increased strike damage.

Shadow Arts

• Hidden Thief — Stealing inflicts blindness. Stealth Attacks inflict weakness. Cannot affect the same target more than once per interval.
• Shadow Siphoning — Stealth attacks siphon health if they hit. Cannot siphon the same target more than once per interval.
• Rending Shade — Steal boons from enemies you strike with stealth attacks. Striking a boonless foe with a stealth attack inflicts fear on nearby foes.

Trickery

• Deadly Ambush — Stealing also applies bleeding. Bleeding you inflict deals more damage.

Specter

• Panaku's Ambition — Gain barrier when you strike foes with a stealth attack. When you apply stealth to allies you also grant them barrier. This effect can only be received once and will reset when stealth is removed.

Notes

• This skill replaces Vital Shot when stealthed.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 25, 2021	Reduced applied bleeding duration from 6 seconds to 5 seconds in PvE only. This now matches the duration in PvP and WvW.
May 26, 2020	Reduced bleeding duration from 6 seconds to 5 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per hit from 0.36 to 0.3.
March 05, 2019	Increased the duration of bleeding that's applied by this skill from 4 seconds to 6 seconds.
July 10, 2018	Increased the damage per bullet by 20%. This change extends to the deadeye variant Malicious Sneak Attack.
July 26, 2016	All stealth attack skills will now have a 1-second recharge between uses.
September 29, 2015	Increased attack damage per shot by 25%.
April 30, 2013	Skills that must be performed from stealth are now labeled as "Stealth Attack."
November 15, 2012	This skill will now only apply the Revealed buff on the first attack that hits an opponent.
October 24, 2012	Stealth skills now always apply the Revealed' buff when they hit their target (this update was not originally documented )
August 28, 2012	Game release: Sneak Attack has been added to the game.

Trivia

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