Feint

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 creates a nominal six-second effect with reduction value truncate(20 + 3 × (max(Ninjitsu,Bushido) - 50)/7).

Notes#

• No current weapon declares this ability. Its registry is stored by the victim, but the damage lookup compares that stored victim against the later damage target; an ordinary retaliation does not match. The timer also removes the original attacker key rather than the stored victim key. Do not assume the tooltip’s advertised damage reduction works.
• 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.