Curse

Nathan the Skank · Aug 19, 2006, 09:46 PM // 21:46

Attack target foe twice. The first attack cannot be "blocked." The second cann't be "evaded." Cost 8 Adrenaline.

Why does everyone love this skill. I go into the farming section and lots of factions builds use it. I realize you gain 2 adrenaline from it, but is that really so great since you use 8 just performing it?

got lah · Aug 19, 2006, 09:55 PM // 21:55

Well two reasons.

One, for the crazy dragon slash chain. With "For Great Justice", Dragon slash gives....7.5(?) strikes of adrenaline which should charge up sun and moon slash. At this point, Dslash should require one or two more strikes of adrenaline to be fully charged, and this is where sun and moon comes into play. "FGJ!", dragon, sms, dragon, sms, dragon sms < chain this with flurry for 20 seconds, and you'll know why people take it :P

Secondly, sun and moon slash does a decent amount of damage. Two strikes, at 16 sword, that sums it up :P

Former Ruling · Aug 19, 2006, 11:06 PM // 23:06

Its basically the Dual Shot of Swords, without the dmg reduction that dual shot gives to bows.

2 Hits...Thats 2 hits to activate effects, 2 strikes of adrenaline back, 2 chances to hit (so Gaurdian doesnt make it just useless).

the block and evade thing is just icing.

fallot · Aug 20, 2006, 08:30 AM // 08:30

Its one strike of adrenaline gained. You lose one strike from every skill when you activate Sun and Moon Slash.

audioaxes · Aug 20, 2006, 11:10 AM // 11:10

double adrenaline, double zealous/vamp return, +damage bonus: an extra swing on a soft target is like +30 damage, except the extra damage can avoid prot spirit mitigation
then the block/evade thing is nice if you hit ppl in stances/wards/enchantments

Racthoh · Aug 20, 2006, 11:28 AM // 11:28

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Originally Posted by audioaxes

double adrenaline, double zealous/vamp return, +damage bonus: an extra swing on a soft target is like +30 damage, except the extra damage can avoid prot spirit mitigation
then the block/evade thing is nice if you hit ppl in stances/wards/enchantments

To add onto this, the Conjure spells hit twice, Orders hit twice, although there is that unfortunate part that Empathy would trigger twice.

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One, for the crazy dragon slash chain. With "For Great Justice", Dragon slash gives....7.5(?) strikes of adrenaline which should charge up sun and moon slash. At this point, Dslash should require one or two more strikes of adrenaline to be fully charged, and this is where sun and moon comes into play. "FGJ!", dragon, sms, dragon, sms, dragon sms < chain this with flurry for 20 seconds, and you'll know why people take it :P

Actually any three attack skills would work just as well. FGJ -> Dragon Slash - Standing Slash -> Silverwing Slash -> back to dragon at 16 sword. Which IMO is a better combo because you're getting +damage on each attack (especially useful on higher AL targets where SMS will do like 10-15 on each hit

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