Improved Feint Attack

Improved Feint Attack

4m Range
Fast
Melee Skill
Skill Type: Melee, Critical Hit Chain
A quick feint attack misdirects your foe, briefly allowing your next attack to act as though you are attacking from stealth.
... (Main-hand) Damage
Your feint allows you to act as though you've entered Stealth for a short time
+5% Melee Damage
Duration: 3s
Cost: [202 at Level 150] Power
Apply to target on Critical and Devastating Critical:
+5% Positional Damage
+20% Skills Critical Multiplier
Duration: 15s
• Cooldown: 5s

General Information

Class: Burglar

Trait Tree: The Quiet Knife

Rank Needed: 30 (set bonus  Practiced Bluff)

This skill replaces  Feint Attack.

Effects

Using this skill applies  Improved Feint to the Burglar, which allows the next skill to be used from Stealth. In addition, upon Critical Hit, this skill applies  The Quiet Knife to the Burglar.

Skill Interactions

The following skills gain improved effects while  Improved Feint is active:

•  Surprise Strike
•  Cunning Attack
•  Provoke

The following skills become available while  Improved Feint is active:

•  Diversion
•  Trip

Trait Interactions

• The trait  Sneak Attack in the Quiet Knife trait tree increases the potency of the Melee Damage buff from Improved Feint by 30%.
  
• The trait  Vital Points in the Quiet Knife trait tree makes this skill have up to a 45% chance to apply Vital Points to the enemy target.
  
• The set bonus  Location is Everything in the Quiet Knife trait tree increases the damage of this skill by 10% and makes it ignore 1% of the enemy block/parry/evade.
  
• The trait  Dance of Blades in the Quiet Knife trait tree increases the damage of this skill by up to 10%.
  

Tracery Interactions

• Feint Attack Damage increases the damage of this skill by up to 55%.
  
• Critical Response Skill Damage increases the damage of this skill by up to 38.5%.
  
• Chain Skills Critical Chance increases the Critical Chance of this skill by up to 5.5%.
  
• Chain Skill Critical Multiplier increases the Critical Multiplier of this skill by up to 27.5%.
  

Tactical Information

While the stealthed versions of the skills are activated, bonuses such as Hidden Dagger and Sneak Attack are not added to them.