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The Lunge Feat!

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2021 8:17 pm
by Hoihe
So, probably around the same time as the mysterious parry feat was implemented, there came a feat known as pommel strike and lunge. I do not know who gets these two, I presume everyone.

They're fairly janky, so I haven't touched them in a good while, but I had a question: how do they interact with Athkatlan tripartite and parry mode?

I had discovered the following:

The feat's description:
[url=https://wiki.bgtscc.net/index.php?title=Lunge wrote:Lunge[/url]]
You Lunge against your last attacked target, causing an attack of opportunity but doing +5 damage if you hit. This is a free attack made at your highest AB. Usable once per turn.
Now, this description is wrong. It cancels the rest of your flurry, so you gotta time it at the end. This is congruent with the IG description.

Now, this is only when you are attacking an enemy without any special circumnstances.

Furthermore, the way it's implemented seems to be that it creates a copy of the user, who executes the attacks. The user themselves just stands there, not attacking. This may cause interesting interactions!



Athkatlan Triparite

My build has 6 attacks one handed, which with Athkatlan is reduced to 3. Normally, using Haste reduces to 3 still, but gives me +1 damage.

When I use Athkatlan Triparite + Lunge, I do 4 attacks.
When I use Athkatlan Triparite + Haste + Lunge, I do 5 attacks.

Due to noise, I could not figure out if AtkhT's +3/+4 damage is retained when lunging.

My testing was too noisy to see if Athkatlan's +3/+4 damage applies to these lunge attacks.



Parry Mode

Normally, Parry mode would limit me to 3 APR and only allow me to attack when I successfully riposte.

Not when lunging.

When lunging, I deal 4 attacks with or without passing the parry check for a riposte. I still parry 3 times a round.

What happens if I combine with Atkhatlan? 4 attacks, parry 3 times.

What happens if Haste+Athkatlan+Parry+Lunge? 5 attacks, parry 3 times.





So!


If you ever fight an enemy with only 3 attacks per round (to make parrying a good idea), have Athkatlan Triparite... I recommend Lunging at the enemy every time it's off CD to get an extra attack or two (or 5, if your opponent's AB is too high to pass the riposte check)

Is this going to be useful for anyone at all? I doubt it.

Re: The Lunge Feat!

Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2021 11:43 pm
by Bobthehero
The copy of you also does not get any of your effects on. No EDM, MaA shouts, combat modes (Power attack and NH). It makes for a very poor fear, unfortunately, I was looking forward to another clickie that could grant my PC extra attacks from time to time, but nope, most of his damage come from modes and self buffs, and so the copy hits like a wet noddle while my PC just stands there.

Re: The Lunge Feat!

Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2021 5:59 am
by YYA
Some kind of a Parrying Duelist 10/Swashbuckler 5 build probably could make use of it.

Pommel strike is removed. Probably because it kept using the instant Rage, and thus the player did not have to click on rage, as the copy from Pommel Strike did..