Sudden Willow Strike

[Steve]

Sudden Willow Strike was/is a Feat once advertised to be packaged with the new Melee Feats recently introduced with this years Big Update. Though I have a toon with the required Feats as per its description, I am not seeing it available on Level Up.

Is this Feat actually available or still in testing?

[Steve]

Type of Feat: General
Prerequisites: Stunning Fist, Weapon Focus (quarterstaff), Dex 13, Wis 13
Specifics: Your monastic training allows great precision with your quarterstaff. You can lash out swiftly and strike foes in vulnerable areas, stunning them.
Special: You can use your Stunning Fist feat with quarterstaff attacks. Using this ability interrupts an ongoing attack flurry, to avoid this you have to use it at the end of your combat round, or sacrifice the remaining attacks in your flurry.
Use: Selected

[chad878262]

Hi Steve...

Sudden Willow Strike was definitely listed with the melee combat feats being implemented in this release. Posting a link here in the QC forums so hopefully Rasael and Duster see it.
thanks,

[Steve]

Thanks Chad.

[Steve]

Sudden Willow Strike is in-game, and a very cool melee addition (I think). Thanks Rasael for making it. Though I think it is Feat Req heavy for a Feat that actually has your toon do less damage than with their Fists—in this case a monk but what other class would use Sudden Willow Strike—it is still Fun.

But the real reason why I'm bringing this thread back is because I noticed that every time I use Sudden Willow Strike, no matter what the attack in my toon's round of attacks, the Dice Roll is always d20 + 23.

Now, my own toon has an attack round currently of 27/27/27/22/17/12. So where is that 23 coming from?

The Feat description for Sudden Willow Strike doesn't say it takes an average from your AB and uses that, no matter which attack in the round it uses, so I'm just a bit clueless. And since it interrupts the attack flurry, I guess a flat 23 is nice cause it makes using it on the last attack rather spectacular...but conversely, it makes using it on the first attack—which you could benefit from by/when winning Initiative, kinda stink.

Any idea what is going on here?