taultunleashed

Hello Everyone,

This is a bug using the Power Attack (PA) skill from knives to increase your rigor / ignore pain/ defense


How it works:

1) Level your knife weapon skill to 25

2) Purchase the Power Attack skill from the fighter NPC

3) Purchase a newbie dagger set (Jade talons) from a NPC

Now you have a choice of either or...

4.1) Have player 1 rest
4.2) Have player 2 use the Power Attack skill, with a .5 - 1 second gap in between each PA use.
4.3) Let it run overnight and you will have mad gains

OR

4.1) Have player 1 rest
4.2) Have multiple (Clanmates/friends/etc) use their PA attack on you


NOTES:

Currently the knives weapon PA skill has a poison dot DoT that can be stacked as many times as needed.

1 Player can have multiple DoTs stacked on a single target (2 is max due to the cooldown)

I have not tested this with swords, but I am looking to make a macro that will use the Knife PA, switch to 1h sword, use 1h sword PA (Which is a bleed)[/b]




EDIT: I have confirmed this letting it run overnight for 2 nights in a row now (Aprox 6-8 hours a night).

Night 1 -

Rigor Start: 31.7 | Defense Start: 24.7
Rigor end: 42.3 | Defense End: 31.2

Night 2 -

Rigor Start: 43.3 | Defense Start: 31.8
Rigor end: 52.6 | Defense End: 38.8

Night 3 -

Rigor Start: 53.1 | Defense Start: 39.0
Rigor end: 66.3 | Defense End: 41.3

Someone mentioned this before but it's nice to see some numbers.

wutthechris wrote:Someone mentioned this before but it's nice to see some numbers.

They did? My fault.. if it was a double post please ignore Tault

Yes, thank you for the numbers I will test soon as well. Can you do this with training daggers once you're at 25? (I.E, does the attacker need to be gaining skill for the defender to gain?)

ragsta9 wrote:Yes, thank you for the numbers I will test soon as well. Can you do this with training daggers once you're at 25? (I.E, does the attacker need to be gaining skill for the defender to gain?)

Defender skill gain is not dependent on the attacker.

Just an update. Added Night 3.

Also my original post was wrong partly, you will gain Rigor and Ignore pain from the poison dot... Where as defense will only gain on the initial melee damage, not the poison DoT

Can members say yay or nay to this being usefull so it may be moved to the confirmed section? If you say nay please say why so we can help others know.

Def yes works great. Need this moved to confirm fast before it catches on and gets fixed.

yay

1k to you and moved to confirmed.

Did they fix this? I ran this for about 8 hours yesterday and my gains were no where near that... It went from 48 to 51 perhaps.

vfrjon wrote:Did they fix this? I ran this for about 8 hours yesterday and my gains were no where near that... It went from 48 to 51 perhaps.

It sounds like you did something wrong.

vfrjon wrote:Did they fix this? I ran this for about 8 hours yesterday and my gains were no where near that... It went from 48 to 51 perhaps.

No patchs... Not Hotfix...

Make sure you are using the KNIVES skill POWER ATTACK!

If you cannot understand that then IDK how to help

cattboy69 wrote:

vfrjon wrote:Did they fix this? I ran this for about 8 hours yesterday and my gains were no where near that... It went from 48 to 51 perhaps.

No patchs... Not Hotfix...

Make sure you are using the KNIVES skill POWER ATTACK!

If you cannot understand that then IDK how to help

I can read. DOh, really, Powerattack? Is that what I should use? /end sarcasim

I followed your instructions to a T and failed to get the gains you describe.

Can someone else confirm that their gains are as described in this thread/

I'm definitely getting these gains, in 2 days I'm going from 40 ish rigor to 75, and thats not even full days (freaking roaches keep screwing up my macro!)