Riposting Shadows

Legendary Assassin. Dodge backward through the Mists. Remove movement-impairing conditions, and gain fury. — In-game description

Riposting Shadows

Profession

Revenant (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Legendary Assassin

Movement

Retreat

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

29209

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Riposting Shadows

Legendary Assassin. Dodge backward through the Mists. Remove movement-impairing conditions, and gain fury.

 Fury (6s): +25% Critical Chance

 Fury (6s): +20% Critical Chance

 Condition Removed

 Condition Removed

 Condition Removed

 Endurance Gained: 25

 Endurance Gained: 15

 Evade: 0.75¾ seconds

 Breaks Stun

— In-game description

Related traits

Retribution

• Unwavering Avoidance — Gain vigor when successfully evading an attack.

Salvation

• Resilient Spirit — Periodically gain barrier for each unique boon you have.
• Generous Abundance — Heal allies around yourself when using a Legend skill. Heal allies around Ventari's Tablet when using a Legendary Centaur skill. Dragon Facet skills and Ventari's Will cannot activate this trait.
• Invigorating Dismissal — Grant endurance when you remove a condition from an ally.

Invocation

• Glaring Resolve — Gain stability and heal yourself when you break stuns.
• Ferocious Aggression — All damage dealt is increased while you have fury.
• Incensed Response — Gain might when you grant yourself fury.
• Contained Temper — Gain energy when you break stun.
• Roiling Mists — Critical-hit chance is further increased while you are under the effect of fury. Convert a percentage of your outgoing critical strike damage into healing.

Devastation

• Notoriety — Might grants you more power and less condition damage. Gain might when using a legendary stance skill.

Herald

• Shared Empowerment — When applying a boon to an ally, also apply might to nearby allies.
• Reinforced Potency — Gain concentration and deal increased strike damage for each active boon you have.
• Elevated Compassion — Heal allies when you grant them boons. Grant boons to allies when your upkeep cost is equal to or higher than the threshold. An ally can only be affected by this skill once per interval.

Renegade

• Blood Fury — Fury increases the duration of bleeds you inflict. Gaining fury inspires you with Kalla's Fervor.
• Wrought-Iron Will — Evading an attack inspires you with Kalla's Fervor and grants boons to nearby allies.
• Brutal Momentum — Gain increased critical-hit chance. This bonus is increased further while your endurance is full. Gain vigor when you gain fury.

Notes

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Riposting Shadows.

• The backwards evade transverses 600 units.
• This skill can be used while in mid-air.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 11, 2025	Reduced the energy cost from 40 to 30 in WvW only.
June 28, 2022	Fury: Critical chance bonus increased from 20% to 25% in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased energy cost from 30 to 40. Reduced endurance gain from 25 to 15.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill now grants 6 seconds of fury when activated.
April 19, 2016	The endurance gain of this ability has been reduced from 50 to 25.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Riposting Shadows has been added to the game.