Block

Ability information#

Requirements#

• Requires the equipped weapon’s assigned primary/secondary slot, normally 70/90 base weapon skill and (unless overridden below) 70/90 base Tactics. Use Best Weapon Skill can satisfy the weapon threshold with base Swords, Macing or Fencing.
• The inherited required secondary skill is Tactics base 50, in addition to the normal Tactics gate.

Effects#

• Source implementation: stores a defense-chance bonus of truncate(10 × ((max(Bushido,Ninjitsu) - 50)/70 + 5)). BaseWeapon adds this to the defender’s defense-chance input.

Notes#

• No current weapon declares this ability. Although its timer constructor specifies six seconds, BeginBlock never starts that timer; automatic six-second expiration is not scheduled by this implementation.
• Base mana is reduced by the shared ability skill-total discount and Lower Mana Cost rules; a second paid ability within the three-second cooldown costs double.