Cripple Shot un-nerfed....eh...somewhat

Anyone else notice that a crippling bow string is being added with chatper 2.

That means cripple shot will be at 9+ seconds duration. At max mark you can get about 10 seconds out of it.

Still doesn't take away the 15e cost but makes it much easier to swallow for sure.

There's a silencing bowstring, too, which doesn't seem available as a melee upgrade, as well as a barbed (which swords and axes already have).

Guessing silencing is for dazed.

They have the mods for all of em I.E. Heavy Sword hilt increases weakness on foe. GREAT mod . . . not a sword skill i know actually weakens. or barbed axe or hammer hilt. . .

Well, Desperation Blow has a 20% chance of causing Weakness, and for that Attack Skill, you can use a sword.

Yeah but for 20% chance is a waste for a mod.

At least its more useful than the "XX% Faster Cast/Recharge on Soul Reaping Skills" items were :P

lengthens bleeding or deep wound would be better considering every sword warrior has sever and gash on his skill bar.

/me looks at his skill bar....


sure

Nearly every sword warrior

Yeah theres a new elite for ranger that if the atack hits that target is dazed for x amount of seconds.Maybe we could see a couple of rangers on teams just dazing the monks over and over while others just kill the rest?

offcourse these builds will come, but I am guessing there will be a pretty long recharge time, because dazed is maybe the most irritating thing you can have on you as a caster

that, or it could/would be used for shouts on warriors, as there are some more shouts in ch.2 and well as the popular iway. mmm could be very usefull string, we'll see.

That would be interesting to see, a skill that works against shouts.

Can you say goodbye IWAY?

of course im sure that if the silencing is for shouts (which how would that work anyways? They dont even have cast times) it will atomatically own all shouts no problem. Silencing>all shout

in regards to the condition extensions of weapons that don't have the conditions;

1) They're also good for casters, as weird as that may seem. They apply to direct conditions caused by your spells and skills. The easiest way to test this is using Virulence on a conditioned foe with either Poisoner's or Heavy mod, and either the green gas cloud or the white weakness smoke ring will vanish first, while the other remains for 1-4 extra seconds (depending on the base duration), consistently, based on which mod you wear.
The neat part is that since it's a prefix mod, you're not missing out on anything. You could wear an armor upgrade, health upgrade, or enchanting upgrade, and still get a good focus.
Of course, considering it's conditions I'm talking about, it's not a huge issue. o_O

2) There're more skills coming on the way. Supposedly, based off of that 'leaked' skill list that has apparently become fairly common knowledge, Axe is getting a bleeding skill (Lacerating Chop), and I'm sure there'll be others. Afterall, they have to inflate the weapon attribute lines too, and you can't just fill them with more pure +damage skills, else they'd be awfully boring. And as Cleave and Eviscerate show, there's often one that's better than the other, so the other gets taken by niche builds.

If what you say is true mercury then that makes the hod sword the best thing for necro with enfeeblement.