Steady Stance

I have two questions about this (imo) awesome skill. I hope this is the right place to post them. The skill is obviously meant to be used together with Desperation Blow to prevent self-knockdown and to gain energy and adrenaline. My questions are about such usage.

1) Steady Stance ends when used together with Desperation Blow. If I use a +15% damage in stance weapon, will I gain the 15% bonus on the Desperation Blow hit? In other words, is the stance terminated before or after the hit?

2) On 14 tactics, Steady Stance gives 3 adrenaline. If I use this with a furious weapon (and I get a "furious hit"), does this mean I gain 8 adrenaline (3*2+1*2) or just 5 adrenaline (3+1*2) ?

Does anyone know?

No one knows. Woe is me

Dunno about the first one, but a furious weapon mod will only apply to attacks.
This means you will get one extra strike of adrenaline seperately, so you'll only get 7 adrenaline.

Quote: Originally Posted by Saphatorael

Oh I see, thanks guys.

Does anyone knows the answer to the first question?

as despiration blow inflicts a KD after you attack, and steady stance prevents that KD, i'd say you'd still be in a stance when you attack, thus getting the damage bonus.

if you want to be sure, go to isle of the nameless and check the damage numbers on the targets, using a 15 stance and 15>50 weapon, and see if there is any difference.

All I know is that Steady Stance + furious mod can charge my Disrupting Chop in 1 hit. That's 6 adrenaline or more.

You can add Drunken Blow to the mix

If you wanted to test to see if you are getting the damage bonus could you not use drunken/desperation blow on a test target while using a weapon that is 15^50 then compare the damage to using it while under steady stance then hitting with a 15% while in stance mod?

zergway..... or should i say zoidbergway D:

it's stupid and considered to be the new iway, its annoying as hell to play against as a spike team.

Quote: Originally Posted by xyke