Blinding Powder

Deception. Blind nearby foes and grant stealth to nearby allies. — In-game description

Blinding Powder

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Deception

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

13044

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20

40

 

Blinding Powder

Deception. Blind nearby foes and grant stealth to nearby allies.

 Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.

 Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Smoke Bomb Radius: 240

 Breaks Stun

 Combo Finisher: Blast

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Critical Strikes

• Hidden Killer — Gain bonus critical-hit chance while stealthed. This bonus lingers for a short duration after you've been revealed.

Shadow Arts

• Merciful Ambush — Heal when you enter or exit stealth. Stealth yourself and your target when reviving an ally. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Shadow's Embrace — Remove conditions when you enter or exit stealth. This effect also applies to stealth you grant to allies.
• Meld with Shadows — Gain superspeed when you enter or exit stealth.
• Leeching Venoms — Venom utility skills siphon life from struck foes. Gain stacks of Spider Venom when you enter or exit stealth. Siphoning can only occur once per strike.
• Cloaked in Shadow — Gaining stealth blinds nearby foes. Blinding a foe siphons health from them.
• Shadow's Rejuvenation — Gain initiative when you enter or exit stealth.

Deadeye

• Payback — When Renewing Gaze triggers, this trait restores a portion of the recharge time needed by your healing, utility, and elite skills. Excludes racial skills.

Notes

• Although this skill has a very comprehensive animation when used, it is invisible to enemy players in WvW and sPvP, so you will not reveal your position while stealthed if you use it.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 15, 2025	This skill is now instant. This skill no longer grants stability.
November 28, 2023	Reduced the cooldown from 40 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE only.
June 28, 2022	Reduced cooldown from 50 seconds to 40 seconds in PvP only.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Increased cooldown from 40 seconds to 50 seconds in PvP only.
July 10, 2018	Updated the tooltip of this skill to better clarify its area of effect. This skill now has a 0.25-second casting time but is now also a stun breaker.
May 08, 2018	This skill can now be used underwater.
January 27, 2015	This skill no longer interrupts your own skills.
October 15, 2013	Stealth duration has been decreased from 5 seconds to 4 seconds when traited with Meld with Shadows. The skill remains with a base of 3 seconds. This skill is now a blast finisher.
November 15, 2012	This skill's recharge has been reduced from 60 seconds to 40 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Blinding Powder has been added to the game.

Trivia

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