Distracting Blow

This article is about the Core skill. For the temporarily available Bonus Mission Pack skill, see Distracting Blow (Turai Ossa).

Melee Attack. Swipe your weapon at the target, dealing no damage but disrupting the target's current action (and the actions of foes adjacent to your target).

Distracting Blow

• 5
• 0.5½
• 10

Profession

Warrior

Type

Melee attack

Campaign

Core

Melee Attack. Swipe your weapon at the target, dealing no damage but disrupting the target's current action (and the actions of foes adjacent to your target).

Concise description

Melee Attack. Also attacks foes adjacent to your target. Interrupts an action. Hits for no damage.

Acquisition

Skill quests

• Factions
  • Disruption (Shing Jea Monastery)

Skill trainers

• Prophecies
  • Marna (Ice Tooth Cave)
  • Firstwatch Sergio (Lion's Arch)
  • Dakk (Ember Light Camp)
• Factions
  • Michiko (Kaineng Center)
• Nightfall
  • Medando (Yohlon Haven)

Hero skill trainers

• Nightfall
  • Warden of Whispers (The Kodash Bazaar)
• Eye of the North
  • Gedrel of Ascalon (Eye of the North)
  • Kodan (Gunnar's Hold)
  • Tyr the Skaald (Gunnar's Hold)
  • Lexx (Rata Sum)

Signet of Capture

• Eye of the North
  • Lissah the Packleader (Bjora Marches)
  • Hodat the Tumbler (Dalada Uplands, after completion of Forgotten Relics)

Related skills

• Distracting Strike
• Savage Slash

Notes

• Unlike Distracting Strike, no damage packet is displayed when hitting the target.
  • Barbs, and the damage increase from Soul Taker or Order of Pain will not trigger.
  • A hit is still registered on the target :
    • Adrenaline (and energy if using a Zealous weapon modifier) is gained as usual.
    • Scythe attacks will hit up to two additional adjacent foes (interrupting them and foes adjacent to them) .
    • Adrenaline gain from Mark of Fury and Dark Fury, Blood Bond's healing, Soul Taker's health sacrifice will occur.
    • Life stealing from a Vampiric weapon modifier, Avatar of Grenth, Grenth's Aura and Order of the Vampire will occur.
    • Distracting Blow needs to hit for its interruption to occur. If Distracting Blow misses (due to blind for instance) or the user is under the effects of Illusionary Weaponry, the interruption will not occur.

Anomaly. The concise description is incorrect: the adjacent foes are interrupted but not attacked. Notably, you won't gain adrenaline from them, and Illusionary Weaponry will not damage them (unless wielding a scythe).