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

• Unless using a scythe, this skill counts as one attack on the targeted foe.
  • Only 1 strike of adrenaline is gained and one energy if using a Zealous weapon modifier. Illusionary Weaponry will only deal damage to the target foe.
• With a scythe, this skill counts as one attack on the targeted foe, but can also hit up to two additional adjacent foes.
  • Sand Shards will trigger several times and 2 or 3 strikes of adrenaline or energy can potentially be gained.
• Since no damage is dealt, skills such as Order of Pain or Barbs have no effect. However Soul Taker's health sacrifice cost will still occur for each foe hit.