Vital Shot

Bleed your foe with a shot to the vitals. — In-game description

Vital Shot

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand pistol

Game link

API

13084

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0.5½  

Vital Shot

Bleed your foe with a shot to the vitals.

 Damage: 211 (0.575)^?

 Damage: 140 (0.383)^?

 Bleeding (6s): 132 Damage

 Bleeding (4s): 88 Damage

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Critical Strikes

• Deadly Aim — Your pistol and harpoon gun attacks now pierce and have increased strike damage.

Trickery

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

Notes

• Attack speed is approximately 0.68 seconds per attack, or 1.47 attacks per second.
• While the thief is stealthed, this skill is replaced with Sneak Attack.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 28, 2023	Increased the bleeding duration from 4 seconds to 6 seconds in PvE only.
August 31, 2021	Fixed a bug that had unintentionally reduced the casting time of this skill by 0.2 seconds.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Updated the icon of this skill. (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.575 to 0.383.
October 18, 2016	Increased damage by 15%.
April 19, 2016	Reduced the aftercast delay of this skill by 0.6 seconds.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Fixed a bug that caused this ability to gain increased attack range when traited with Ankle Shots.
September 29, 2015	Increased damage by 24%.
October 21, 2014	Fixed a bug that prevented this ability from functioning with Ricochet in PvE.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Vital Shot has been added to the game.