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| Feint
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| Mnemonic
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[feint]
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| Activating Verb
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CMAN
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| Category
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Warrior Guild
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| Type
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Setup
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| Roundtime
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3s
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| Stamina Cost
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9
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| Offensive Gear
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Right hand
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| Requirements
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a weapon to feint with (Rank 5 masters may feint bare-handed)
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| Attributes
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Hostile
Initiator Stance Penalty
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| Available To
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All
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| Rank
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Cost/acquired at
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| 1
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2
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| 2
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4
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| 3
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6
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| 4
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8
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| 5
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10
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Description
Attempt to distract an opponent into dropping their stance.
Mechanics
Maneuver a target to reduce their
stance by by 1% per
endroll over 100. An endroll of 200 will force the target to offensive. Applies
Staggered for
(Success Margin / 6) seconds.
Additional Information
When using Feint, a character makes a motion to attack against an opponent without following through, attempting to get their opponent to account for a potential attack that never comes, typically leaving themselves open and off-balance for a subsequent attack. Feint effectively changes the defender's stance closer to offensive, and puts them in a small amount of roundtime, should they fail the maneuver check, thus reducing their ability to defend against an attack. The maximum stance change caused by feint is 100%.
The impact of feint cman ranks on feint rolls is an open question, but it is known that going from rank 3 to rank 4 resulted in a 10 higher bonus to a feint roll.
Attempting to feint a target that is already under the effects of a previous feint will automatically fail.
Warriors have access to feint through the
Warrior Guild skill,
Warrior Tricks. It is obtained at rank 10 and increased training in Warrior Tricks increases the effectiveness of feint when using the guild version. Like all
combat maneuvers available through the
profession guilds, training in both the guild and CML version provides no benefit.
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