Impacting Disruption

Recharge steal and inflict a pulmonary impact when you interrupt an enemy. This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval. — In-game description

Impacting Disruption

Specialization

Daredevil (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Impacting Disruption

Recharge steal and inflict a pulmonary impact when you interrupt an enemy.
This trait can only affect enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

 Recharge Time Reduced: 3 seconds

 Interval: 3 seconds

— In-game description

Trait skill

Skill			Description
Pulmonary Impact (PvE)			Physical. Cause a rupture that deals massive damage when this skill ends. This ability cannot critically hit.
Pulmonary Impact (WvW, PvP)			Physical. Cause a rupture that deals massive damage when this skill ends. This ability cannot critically hit.

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Head Shot — Pistol
•   Tactical Strike — Sword
•   Pistol Whip — Sword
•   Choking Gas — Short bow
•   Distracting Throw — Spear
•   Tow Line — Spear
•   Hook Strike — Staff

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   Pitfall
•   Scorpion Wire — Trick
•   Reflexive Strike — Physical
•   Distracting Daggers — Physical
•   Palm Strike — Physical

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   Basilisk Venom — Venom
•   Impact Strike — Physical
•   Uppercut

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Steal
•   Bone Crack — Stolen skill
•   Branch Bash — Stolen skill
•   Club Shock Wave — Stolen skill
•   Mace Head Crack — Stolen skill
•   Shoot Rifle — Stolen skill
•   Skull Fear — Stolen skill
•   Throw Enchanted Ice — Stolen skill
•   Throw Gear — Stolen skill
•   Throw Magnetic Bomb — Stolen skill
•   Throw Rock — Stolen skill
•   Throw Rock — Stolen skill
•   Throw Unstable Reagent — Stolen skill
•   Use Scepter — Stolen skill
•   Use Staff — Stolen skill
•   Use Trident — Stolen skill

Related traits

Traits that are improved by this trait

Trickery

• Sleight of Hand — Stealing also dazes the target. Reduces the recharge of Steal.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	This trait now reduces Steal's recharge in addition to its previous effect.
March 27, 2018	Pulmonary Impact: Reduced damage by 29% in PvP and WvW.
December 12, 2017	Skills, traits, and sigils that have bonus effects when interrupting foes will now activate when used against foes with defiance bars as though they had been interrupted, with a 3-second cooldown.
May 16, 2017	The damage of this effect has been reduced by 15% in PvP only.
October 18, 2016	Pulmonary Impact: Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from doing damage while a thief was in the air.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Impacting Disruption has been added to the game.