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Staff-strike
You raise your weapon to fell your enemy with a mighty blow.
Cost: Power 3m Range Base Cooldown: 10s |
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The basic Staff-strike skill does common damage. When you have equipped the class trait Master of the Staff, this skill's title changes to Improved Staff-strike and the skill's tooltip additionally states that "When stacked with Flank!, this ability does even greater damage." To understand the "When stacked with Flank!" requirement of Improved Staff-strike, see Mechanics:Flanking. If you use Improved Staff-strike when the foe is not flanked, the skill works exactly like a regular Staff-strike but with 25% more damage, and the damage is light-based instead of common damage. If you use Improved Staff-strike while the foe is flanked, you also inflict instant light-based direct damage that equals roughly 170% of your basic Staff-strike damage. The two chunks of damage together total nearly 3 times the amount of a basic Staff-strike, and it's all light-based damage! Note that the instant light-based direct damage portion never crits, but the "attack swing" portion can still crit normally. When flanked, Improved Staff-strike also has a very small chance to proc a short stun on the foe. Unlike the other Loremaster skill (Sign of Power: Wizardry) that is based on the flanking mechanic, there is no healing component to Improved Staff-strike. |
