Hundred Blades

Hundred Blades

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Profession

Warrior

Attribute

Swordsmanship

Type

Elite skill

Campaign

Core

Animation

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Elite Skill. For 15 seconds, whenever you attack with a sword, all adjacent foes take 10...22...25 slashing damage.

Concise description

Elite Skill. (15 seconds.) Deals 10...22...25 slashing damage to all adjacent foes whenever you attack with a sword.

Progression
Swordsmanship Damage	0 10 1 11 2 12 3 13 4 14 5 15 6 16 7 17 8 18 9 19 10 20 11 21 12 22 13 23 14 24 15 25 16 26 17 27 18 28 19 29 20 30 21 31

Acquisition

• Prophecies
  • "Spoiler-related boss" (Hell's Precipice)
  • Galrath (Kessex Peak, only during The Villainy of Galrath (Hard mode))
• Factions
  • Warrior's Construct (Sunjiang District mission and explorable area)
• Nightfall
  • Reaper of Agony (Depths of Madness)
  • Blade of Corruption (Nightfallen Jahai, only during Breaking the Broken)
• Beyond
  • Winds of Change
    • Commander Chui Kantu (Jaya Bluffs, only during Honorable Combat)

Related skills

• Storm of Swords
• Vow of Strength (elite)

Notes

Anomaly.Although Hundred Blades is no longer an attack skill, it triggers the typical sword hit sound when dealing damage.

• Synergizes well with Whirlwind Attack, Sun and Moon Slash, Mark of Pain and Barbs.
• When Whirlwind Attack is used, this skill will trigger on each adjacent foe hit.
• Because this triggers on attack, you don't actually have to hit for the damage to occur.
• The damage coming from this skill is triggered before your regular attack which means that using +damage skills will "ignore" skills like Reversal of Fortune and Life Sheath.
• Also, since the damage applied by Hundred Blades is indirect, it will not trigger more damage on Holy Wrath or Retribution.
• Because this damages all "adjacent foes" it will miss kiting opponents as they will have moved away by the time the attack connects.
• If you are using an emote when using this skill, no animation will show until you stop doing the emote. The animation will stack with several Hundred Blades.

Trivia

• This skill was non-elite prior to the release of Prophecies and the reason why Warriors have one elite skill more than other core professions. (See Mantra of Celerity.)
• This is one of five elite skills seen in pre-Searing Ascalon, the other four being Barrage, Bull's Charge, Earth Shaker, and Ward Against Harm.

The Guild Wars 2 Wiki also has an article on Hundred Blades.

• The swords seen in the skill icon are Gladii.
• The functionality of this skill has changed since its introduction; see its skill revision history for details.