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DEATH STRIKE [30 mana, 85 min skill, 120 skill gives 95.0% success]
NOTE: Damage from Death Strike is halved with bow attacks.
If you hit in combat & pass the check to use deathstrike this 30 mana attack halves the damage of your initial strike and then has one of 2 additional effects:
1) If the target takes less than 5 steps during the next 5 seconds then they will take (Ninjitsu/9)*(.3+.7*(hiding+stealth)/220) + [tracking bonus] DIRECT damage
2) If the target takes more than 5 steps in the next 5 seconds then they will take (Ninjitsu/3)*(.3+.7*(hiding+stealth)/220) + [tracking bonus] DIRECT damage
TRACKING: If you sucessfully track a target before you deathstrike, the next deathstrike attack will do additional damage as follows. Adds up to 10 damage based on the distance between where the target was standing when you tracked them and where they are standing when you deathstrike them. In addition you will do tracking /10 (rounded down bonus damage)
[Tracking bonus is now capped at 10 + 1/10 skill ]
DAMAGE IS CAPPED AT 60 (if they run) & 20 (if they stand still).
If you stack a second deathstrike attack, the caps change to 70 (if they run) & 30 (if they stand still).
Note: The 5 sec damage is unaffected by choice of weapon or level of tactics/anatomy (you can even use wrestling).
The stealth changes have made the formula for death strike damage a little cumbersome. Here are some examples:
0 hiding and 0 stealth = 12 damage if they run (elf) [not including tracking] (a human does 17 because of the free 20 in hiding and stealth)
SIMPLIFIED
100 hiding and 80 stealth = 34 damage if they run [not including tracking]
100 hiding and 120 stealth = 40 damage if they run [not including tracking]
100 hiding and 120 stealth + human track = 52 ( 2 pts for 20 tracking and then actually tracking them gives you an automatic 10)
100 hiding and 120 stealth + gm track= 60 (10 pts for 100 tracking and then the automatic 10 bonus from tracking)
If you ask me id say 40 tracking is pretty worth it, as youd squeeze out 54 pt DS. Now depending on your play style you might invest more into tracking and less into stealth, meaning for the same skill points, your normal DS will do less while your tracking DS will do more.
Your welcome.
PS please tell your the one who bought haviks items from the vendor, he gave me back my stuff and I tried to return the favor only to find they were gone.
