Hunter's Instinct

See also: Swiftscaled

Damage dealt is increased.

— In-game description

Hunter's Instinct is a beneficial status effect that can be applied by vipers. It is a damage up buff, increasing personal damage dealt.

PvE

Hunter's Instinct increases damage dealt by 10%. It is granted by the following actions:

Action	Acquired		Level	Type	MP	Casting	Recast	Range Radius	Description
Hunter's Sting	VPR		5	Weaponskill		Instant	2.5s	3y 0y	Delivers an attack with a potency of 300. Additional Effect: Grants Hunter's Instinct Hunter's Instinct Effect: Increases damage dealt by 10% Duration: 40s Can only be executed after successfully landing Steel Fangs or Dread Fangs ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar. ※Steel Fangs changes to Hunter's Sting when requirements for execution are met.
Hunter's Bite	VPR		40	Weaponskill		Instant	2.5s	0y 5y	Delivers an attack with a potency of 180 to all nearby enemies. Additional Effect: Grants Hunter's Instinct Hunter's Instinct Effect: Increases damage dealt by 10% Duration: 40s Can only be executed after successfully landing Steel Maw or Dread Maw. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar. ※Steel Maw changes to Hunter's Bite when requirements for execution are met.
Hunter's Coil	VPR		65	Weaponskill		Instant	3s	3y 0y	Delivers an attack with a potency of 630. 680 when executed from a target's flank. Additional Effect: Grants Hunter's Instinct Hunter's Instinct Effect: Increases damage dealt by 10% Duration: 40s Additional Effect: Grants Hunter's Venom Hunter's Venom Effect: Increases potency of Twinfang Bite by 50 Duration: 30s Additional Effect: Increases Serpent Offerings Gauge by 5 Upon successfully landing this action, Twinfang changes to Twinfang Bite, and Twinblood changes to Twinblood Bite. These actions can be executed a total of two times following Hunter's Coil. Can only be executed after landing Dreadwinder or Swiftskin's Coil. This weaponskill does not share a recast timer with any other actions.
Hunter's Den	VPR		70	Weaponskill		Instant	3s	0y 5y	Delivers an attack with a potency of 300 to all nearby enemies. Additional Effect: Grants Hunter's Instinct Hunter's Instinct Effect: Increases damage dealt by 10% Duration: 40s Additional Effect: Grants Fellhunter's Venom Fellhunter's Venom Effect: Increases potency of Twinfang Thresh by 30 Duration: 30s Additional Effect: Increases Serpent Offerings Gauge by 5 Upon successfully landing this action, Twinfang changes to Twinfang Thresh, and Twinblood changes to Twinblood Thresh. These actions can be executed a total of two times following Hunter's Den. Can only be executed after landing Vicepit or Swiftskin's Den. This weaponskill does not share a recast timer with any other actions.

The aforementioned actions grant Hunter's Instinct up to, and for 40 seconds. Subsequent applications will reset the duration to 40 seconds.

Vipers are expected to have Hunter's Instinct active at all times. The 40 second timer means that only two Reawaken bursts may be executed before Hunter's Instinct likely expires through the third Reawaken burst.

PvP

Retired content

The subject of this article was retired or removed from the game and is no longer available. It was removed in patch 7.1.

Hunter's Instinct was removed in patch 7.1, following viper's PvP rework. It increased damage dealt by 10%. Viper played similarly to monk, in needing to maintain GCD uptime as both Hunter's Instinct and Swiftscaled were integral to viper's performance. Following the rework, viper's damage of all weaponskills were increased. The following actions granted Hunter's Instinct for 15 seconds, up to 30 seconds:

Action	Acquired		Level	Type	MP	Casting	Recast	Range Radius	Description
Hunter's Sting (PvP)	VPR		30	Weaponskill		Instant	2s	5y 0y	Delivers an attack with a potency of 6,000. Combo Action: Steel Fangs ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Hunter's Snap (PvP)	VPR		30	Weaponskill		Instant	15s	5y 0y	Delivers an attack with a potency of 8,000. Additional Effect: Grants Hunter's Instinct Hunter's Instinct Effect: Increases damage dealt by 10% Duration: 15s Extends Hunter's Instinct duration by 15s to a maximum of 30s. Maximum Charges: 2 This weaponskill does not share a recast timer with any other actions. ※Action changes to Swiftskin's Coil upon execution.