Online:Death Stroke

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	Death Stroke
Line		Assassination
Line Rank		12	Cost	70 Ultimate
Cast Time		Instant	Duration	–
Target		Enemy
Range		5 meters
Morphs
		Incapacitating Strike Deals Disease Damage. With increased Ultimate, stuns enemies.
		Soul Harvest While slotted, any time you kill an enemy you gain Ultimate.
Notes Magicka/Stamina Cost is based on a character of Level 50 160. Damage values are based on Max Magicka/Stamina 7958, Max Health 8744, and Weapon/Spell Damage 1037.

Death Stroke: Ravage an enemy with a spinning attack, dealing [9686 / 9793 / 9898 / 10005] Magic Damage and increasing your damage against them by 20% for 6 seconds. Also afflicts the enemy with Major Defile, reducing their healing received and Health Recovery by 30%.

Incapacitating Strike: Ravage an enemy with a spinning attack, dealing 10005 Disease Damage, and increasing your damage against them by 20% for 6 seconds. Stuns enemies for [3 / 3.5 / 4 / 4.5] seconds when cast with 120 Ultimate or more. Also afflicts the enemy with Major Defile, reducing their healing received and Health Recovery by 30%.

Soul Harvest: Ravage an enemy with a spinning attack, dealing 10005 Magic Damage and increasing your damage against them by 20% for 6 seconds. Also afflicts the enemy with Major Defile, reducing their healing received and Health Recovery by 30%. While slotted, any time you kill an enemy you gain [7 / 8 / 9 / 10] Ultimate.

Death Stroke deals Magic Damage and increases damage against the affected enemy, who is also inflicted with Major Defile, reducing their Healing Received. The Incapacitating Strike morph changes the damage to Disease Damage and stuns the target. Or you could choose the Soul Harvest morph, which earns you extra Ultimate for each kill when it is slotted.

Notes

• Death Stroke is the cheapest of all the Ultimate abilities, especially when the Soul Harvest morph is chosen, because you earn some back for every kill.
• Soul Harvest is a recommended morph for the Nightblade Initiate build, while Incapacitating Strike is recommended for Umbral Assassin.

Patch Notes

 

1.1.2

• This ability no longer receives the critical damage bonus when used as a sneak attack. It will still cause a stun and a guaranteed critical hit.

 

1.5.2

• This ability now deals 35% increased damage, and no longer scales up with increased Ultimate.
• Death Stroke now increases the damage you deal to a target by 20% for 6 seconds.

 

1.6.5

• Death Stroke and its morphs will now apply the Major Defile buff.

 

2.4.5

• Reduced the damage of this ability and its morphs by 4.5%.
• Incapacitating Strike: This morph now always stuns the target when it is used, regardless of the caster's health. This morph now also deals Disease Damage instead of Magic Damage.

 

2.7.5

• Increased the cost of this ability and its morphs to 70 Ultimate from 50 Ultimate.
  • Developer Comments: With the Nightblade's high Ultimate generation, Death Stroke is available too frequently for how powerful it is. Increasing the cost keeps its current burst potential while making Nightblades think more tactically about when to use it.

 

3.0.5

• Fixed an issue where this ability and the Soul Harvest morph's damage was being mitigated off the target's Physical Resistance instead of their Spell Resistance.

 

3.3.5

• Soul Harvest: Fixed an issue where you could not dodge this morph.

 

4.1.5

• This ability now only stuns if you have 120 Ultimate or more. To visually show its readiness state, the icon will change to a recolored version and the animation of the cast will change.

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