Step Back

Step Back

Fast
Skill Type: Buff, Swordplay
Create space with a step back.

Swordplay:
  Disengage gains a heal.
  Riposte will enrage your target.
+25% Partial Evade Chance
Duration: 5s
Disengage applies a heal
Riposte enrages your target
Duration: 10s
Cost: [336 at Level 150] Power
Attunes: 3
• Cooldown: 5s

General Information

Class: Mariner

Level: 3

This skill is replaced by  Check-step (requires set bonus  Check-step).

Effects

Using this skill applies  Step Back, as well as  Swordplay: Step Back to the Mariner. This effect is consumed by the next Swordplay skill.

Skill Interactions

The following Swordplay skills empower Step Back:

•  Blade Shield makes this skill grant -15% Incoming Damage.

The following skills are empowered when they are the next Swordplay skill used after Step Back:

•  Disengage heals the Mariner. If traited in yellow-line, it additionally heals the fellowship.
•  Riposte applies  Enraged to the enemy target.

Trait Interactions

• The trait  A Step Back in the Duellist trait tree makes this skill shift the Mariner up to 3 additional steps aft-ward.
  
• The trait  Shrug Aside Blows in the Shanty-caller trait tree makes Step Back decrease incoming damage by up to 10%.
  
• The trait  Coordinated Movement in the Rover trait tree makes  Disengage heal the fellowship when used after this skill.
  
• The set bonus  Check-step in the Duellist trait tree replaces this skill with  Check-step.
  

Tracery Interactions

• Defensive Swordplay Buff Durations increases the duration of Step Back by up to 3.3 seconds.
  

Armour Set Interactions

Equipping 2 pieces of the Umbari Armour of the Stars armour set acquired from the Depths of Mâkhda Khorbo Raid increases the duration of Step Back by 2 seconds.

Tactical Information

Step Back is most commonly used in conjunction with Blade Shield as a defensive combo. This is also used by Yellow-line Mariners to enrage ranged targets into melee range.