Swordmaster Abilities (WAR)

ACTIONS Table

All "x" notations for skills mean the statistic will shift depending upon your level.

Rank	Ability	Path	Cost	Range	Type	Delay	Duration	Cooldown	Description
CORE Actions
1	Throw		20	5-65ft	Damaging	1s		No Cooldown	A basic throwing attack that inflicts X damage. Has a chance to deal Y damage to a severely wounded target if you are behind them.
1	Ensorcelled Blow	Hoeth	35	5ft	Hex	Instant		No Cooldown	A quick precision slash that calls out the enchantment in your blade dealing X Spirit damage. Leads to Improved Balance.
2	Quick Incision	Khaine	35	5ft	Hex	Instant	10s	No Cooldown	A rapid slash to your opponents legs that deals X damage and snares them by 40% for 10 seconds. Requies Improved Balance. Leads to Perfect Balance.
3	Blurring Shock	Khaine	No cost	5ft	Damaging	Instant	10s	No Cooldown	A powerful slash that deals X Spirit damage. For the next 10 seconds, each time the target is critically hit, they take an additional Y Spirit damage. Requires Perfect Balance. Leads to Normal Balance.
4	Eagle's Flight	Vaul	35	5ft	Buff	Instant	5s	No Cooldown	A guarded strike that deals X damage and improves your chance to parry by 25% for 5 seconds. Requires Improved Balance. Leads to Perfect Balance.
5	Phantom's Blade	Vaul	55	No range	Buff	Instant		No Cooldown	You enchant your blade with the sprits of the dead. All your melee attacks have a 25% chance to activate a shield that absorbs up to X damage over 10 seconds. You may only have 1 Blade Enchantment active at a time.
6	Graceful Strike	Vaul	35	5ft	Hex	Instant	5s	No Cooldown	A swift attack that deals X damage and Cripples for an additional Y damage over 5 seconds. Monsters struck with this technique will hate you more. Leads to Improved Balance.
7	Taunt		20	65ft range	Debuff	Instant	15s	15s	You enrage your opponent, interrupting any currently building abilities and forcing monsters to attack you. While taunted your opponent will take 3% more damage from your attacks. This effect will fade after 15 seconds or after your opponent has hit you 3 times.
8	Gryphon's Lash	Khaine	40	5ft	Damaging	Instant		No Cooldown	A fierce attack that deals X damage and cannot be Blocked or Parried. Leads to Improved Balance.
9	Phantom Blade	Khaine	55	No range	Buff	Instant		No Cooldown	You enchant your blade with the spirit of nature. All your melee attacks gain a 25% chance to randomly steal X stat points from targets within 30 feet of you for 10 seconds. During this time, both you and groupmates within 65 feet will benefit from the stolen stats. You may only have 1 Blade Enchantment active at a time.
10	Guard		No cost	150ft	Buff	Instant		No Cooldown	You defend one of your groupmates and try to take attacks meant for them. As long as you are within 30 feet of them, any damage that they suffer will be split evenly between the two of you, and 35% of all hate that they cause will be redirected to you. Only usable on other players.
10	Hold the Line!		20 / second	No range	Buff	12s	12s	No Cooldown	You focus your defenses against enemy fire, increasing your chances to dodge and disrupt by 45% for 12 seconds. You will also defend all allies behind you, up to 40 feet away, increasing their chances to dodge and disrupt by 15% as long as they remain at your back. Allies may have this effect stacked on them up to 3 times.This effect will end if you break your concentration, or run out of action points.
12	Juggernaut		45	No range	Buff	Instant		60s	You become filled with unstoppable power, removing all snaring, rooting, silencing, and disarming effects.
12	Dazzling Strike	Hoeth	No cost	5ft	Hex	Instant	5s	No cooldown	When your blade hits your opponent it releases a blinding flash of light that deals X Spirit damage, and disorients your target for 5 seconds, increasing their build times by 50%. Requires Perfect Balance. Leads to Normal Balance.
14	Wrath of Hoeth	Hoeth	40	5ft	Hex	Instant	20s	No Cooldown	The magic from your blade is released in a staggering explosion that deals X damage to all opponents within 20 feet. In addition your opponent's Spiritual resistance will be reduced by Y for 20 seconds. Leads to Perfect Balance. Requires Improved Balance.
16	Gusting Wind	Hoeth	No cost	No range	Debuff	Instant		10s	You execute a quick spin, rending the air around you and producing a magical shockwave that which deals X Spirit damage to all opponents within 30 feet of you, knocking back enemy players and knocking down monsters. Requires Perfect Balance. Leads to Normal Balance.
18	Dragon's Talon		No cost	5ft	Hex	Instant	4s	No Cooldown	You release two rending blows that deal X Spirit damage each, crippling your target for 4 seconds, reducing the damage they deal with every attack by 20%. Leads to Normal Balance. Requires Perfect Balance
20	Challenge		30	No range	Debuff	Instant	15s	30s	You challenge all opponents in front of you, forcing monsters to attack you. While challenged, your opponents will deal 30% less damage to everyone other than you. This effect will fade after 15 seconds or after your opponent has hit you 3 times.
22	Shatter Enhancement		25	5ft	Damaging	Instant		5s	A shattering attack that removes one Enhancement from your enemy and do X damage. Target must have an Enhancement.
25	Heaven's Blade	Hoeth	55	No range	Buff	Instant		No Cooldown	You enchant your blade with the spirit of the heavens. All your melee attacks gain a 25% chance to reduce all of your target's resistances by X for 10 seconds. You may only have 1 Blade Enchantment active at a time.
30	Aethyric Grasp		30	No range	Debuff	Instant	10s	60s	Roots up to 4 enemies within 30 feet of you, making them unable to move for 10 seconds. Root has a 50% chance to break whenever hit.
35	Intimidating Blow	Vaul	40	5ft	Hex	Instant		5s	An overpowering strike that deals X damage and decreases your opponent's morale by 100. Requires Improved Balance. Leads to Perfect Balance.
40	Wall of Darting Steel	Khaine	20 / second	No range	Buff	20s		No Cooldown	You spin your greatsword with astounding speed forming a wall of steel between you and your opponent. Increasing your chance to Dodge, Disrupt and Parry attacks by 50% and whenever you defend against attack you will reflect back X Spirit damage. Requires Great Weapon.
Masteries that build CORE Actions
x5	Sapping Strike	Khaine	25	5ft	Hex	Instant	5s	10s	A targeted strike that saps the energy from your target dealing X damage and reducing your opponent's AP by 10 every seconds for 5 seconds. Leads to Improved Balance.
x9	Echoing Roar	Khaine	35	5ft	Damaging	Instant		No cooldown	A broad slash that hits all opponents in front of you for X damage, as well as increasing hate from monsters. Requires Improved Balance. Leads to Perfect Balance. Requires Great Weapon.
x13	Ether Dance	Khaine	No cost	5ft	Damaging	3s	3s	8s	You focus on your target, slashing repeatedly for up to 3 seconds, striking them up to five times and dealing X Spirit damage with each hit. Leads to Normal Balance. Requires Perfect Balance. Requires Great Weapon.
x5	Redirected Force	Vaul	25	5ft	Damaging	Instant		5s	Redirects the force of a blocked blow into a devastating attack dealing X damage and generating a large amount of additional hate from monsters. Requires Block, Disrupt, Dodge, or Parry.
x9	Crushing Advance	Vaul	30	5ft	Buff	Instant	20s	10s	A calculated shield maneuver that inflicts X damage and interrupts any spells being cast. Additionally, for the next 20 seconds, your block rate is increased by 5% and your armor will be increased by Y points. Requires Shield. Leads to Perfect Balance. Requires Improved Balance.
x13	Crashing Wave	Vaul	No cost	5ft	Debuff	Instant	3s / 4s	20s	You launch two powerful blows dealing a total of X Spirit damage and knocking your opponent down for 3 seconds. Your group becomes Unstoppable for 4 seconds, granting immunity to all Stun, Knockdown, Disarm, or Silence effects. Requires Perfect Balance. Leads to Normal Balance.
x5	Aethyric Armor	Hoeth	35	No range	Buff	Instant		No Cooldown	The power coursing through your blade is extended to your armor, increasing it by X and increasing your Disrupt chance by 5%.
x9	Protection of Hoeth	Hoeth	25	No range	Buff	Instant	5s	10s	You call upon the magic in your blade to form a barrier to protect you, absorbing up to X damage for up to 5 seconds. Leads to Improved Balance.
x13	Whispering Wind	Hoeth	No cost	5ft	Hex	Instant	10s	20s	You release two swift blows that deal X Spirit damage each, interrupting any building attack and will Silence your target for 5 seconds. The winds then aid your group for the next 10 seconds by decreasing the cooldown of abilities used by 5 seconds. Requires Perfect Balance. Leads to Normal Balance.

MORALE Table

Rank	Ability	Morale Rank	Range	Duration	Description
CORE Morale
8	Demolishing Strike	1	5ft	15s	A powerful melee attack that reduces armor by X and deals Y damage over 15 seconds.
12	Shield Wall	2	No range	10s	Increases your chance to block by 100% for 10 seconds. Requires Shield.
16	Champion's Challenge	1	5ft	10s	Both you and your target are held tightly in place for 10 seconds, and neither one of you can move. This effect can not be dispelled or borken.
20	Raze	2	No range	3s	Repeatedly attack all enemies in front of you, inflicting X damage every seconds for 3 seconds, up to 65 feet away.
24	Distracting Bellow	3	100ft	10s	A loud shout that startles your target and all enemies within 30 feet of them, reducing their damage by 50% for 10 seconds.
28	Guard of Steel	1	No range	10s	Protective magic increases your group's Toughness by X for 10 seconds.
32	Wings of Heaven	2	100ft	10s	You magically leap through the air towards your target. When you land, all enemies around you will become snared for 10 seconds, reducing their run speed by 60%.
36	Bladeshield	3	10ft	3	You become protected by a magical shell for a few moments which will strike back at any attacker for X damage and absorb up to Y damage for up to 10 seconds.
40	Immaculate Defense	4	No range	10s	An impressive display of defense which reduces incoming damage by 75% for both you and all group members within 65 feet of you for 10 seconds.
Masteries that build CORE Morale
x15	Khaine - Whirling Geyser	4	No range		A spinning attack that inflicts X damage to all enemies within 30 feet and then knocks them away.
x15	Vaul - Shield of Valor	4	No range	10s	Everyone in your group regains 200 action points and is protected by a magical barrier for 10 seconds which will absorb up to X damage.
x15	Hoeth - Shadow Blades	4	No range	12s	All enemies within 30 feet suffer X Spiritual damage over 12 seconds and will steadily lose 28 Morale.

TACTICS Table

Rank	Ability	Description
CORE Tactics
11	Centuries of Training	Upon striking a target with a direct damage ability there is a 25% chance to inflict an additional X Spirit damage over 3 seconds.
13	Focused Offense	You deal 15% more damage and all enemy monsters will ahte you 15% less than normal, but your armor is reduced by 33%.
15	Ensorcelled Agony	Ensorcelled Blow will now cause an additional X Spirit damage over 5s.
17	Bend the Winds	Increases your Elemental resistance by X.
19	Rugged	Increases your Toughness by X.
21	Dampening Talon	Dragon's Talon will now reduce the target's Block and Parry chance by 10% for 5 seconds.
23	Discerning Offense	You attacks have a 10% reduced chance to be defended against.
25	Menace	Enemy monsters will hate you 100% more than normal on all attacks.
27	Isha's Protection	Heals are 20% more effective on you.
29	Unstoppable Juggernaut	Juggernaught's cooldown is reduced to 20 seconds.
31	Potent Enchantments	Blade Enchantments will also deal X damage over 9 seconds whenever they trigger.
33	Poised Attacks	Attacks dealt from Improved or Perfect Balance are 10% harder to defend against.
35	Forceful Shock	Blurring Shock now knocks back players and knocks down monsters.
37	Impeccable Reacions	Each time you parry an attack, you will also parry the next attack. This double parry can not occur more than once every 5 seconds.
39	Adept Movements	Improved Stance abilities now cost 35% less AP.
Masteries that build CORE Tactics
x3 Vaul	Perfect Defenses	Increase Block and Parry chances by 5% when in Improved Balance, and 10% when in Perfect Balance.
x7 Vaul	Lingering Intimidation	Intimidating Blow will now reduce your target's chance to Critically hit by 25% for 10 seconds.
x11 Vaul	Vaul's Buffer	On a successful Block, Dodge or Disrupt you will absorb up to X damage over the next 10 seconds. This effect will not trigger more than once every 3 seconds.
x3 Hoeth	Bolstering Enchantments	When Blade Enchants trigger they will now restore X health over 10 seconds to your group.
x7 Hoeth	Calming Winds	Increase Disrupt chance by 10% when in Improved Balance, and 20% when in Perfect Balance.
x11 Hoeth	Blessing of Heaven	Path of Hoeth abilities will place an effect on your target for 10 seconds. During this time, any allies who strike the target will recover X health over 3 seconds.
x3 Khaine	Deep Incision	Quick Incision will now inflict an additional X damage over 10 seconds.
x7 Khaine	Balanced Accuracy	Increases your chance to critically hit by 10% while you have Improved Balance, or 20% while you have Perfect Balance.
x11 Khaine	Great Weapon Mastery	WHen you are wielding a Greatweapon, your chance to parry is increased by 5% and all damage you deal is increased by 10%.

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