Skills - Flurry

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Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

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Metavirulent

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2005

How much does this increase your attack rate? How much damage it takes away per attack?

toastgodsupreme

toastgodsupreme

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

United States

Me/

Bump, would like to know as well.

Acan Vishnu

Acan Vishnu

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Mo/N

A warrior friend in my guild has said that its a 20% decrease in damage.. You can apparently test this yourself by having two identical weapons and customizing only one of them. Just use flurry with the customized one and compare that to the regular damage of the uncustomized one.

Owen

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2005

Mo/Me

Exact figures I dunno... I find that it's a notch above Weakness. Weakness knocks my damage down to about 8-10 and Flurry seems to knock it down to about 15-20. I use my skills so often that I don't have a good baseline for my normal damage though so I can't really say what it's knocking me down from (normally I do anywhere from 30-110 dam a hit skills included).

The best use I find for this skill is as a distractor and adrenaline graber. If some Hill Giant is pounding away on my Monk I Flurry him and 9/10 he'll turn his attack to me. Plus, obviously, the increased attack rate brings increased adrenaline. As for that attack speed, it seems faster than Frenzy which is a 33% increase, but that could be an illusion.

ratatass

ratatass

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2005

New Mexico

Yes it does seem faster than Frenzy. It shouldn't be. I use it to kill of easy mobs in PvE faster and charge adrenaline in PvP.


I tend to like it. At least the look of it, bam bam bam.

Sagius Truthbarron

Sagius Truthbarron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Animal Factory [ZoO]

A/

Stance. For 5 seconds your attack rate is increased by 33% but you deal 25% less damage.

Felbryn

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2005

Mo/E

33% faster and 25% less damage means that your average damage-over-time should be the same (excepting attack skills, preparations, etc. which probably benefit from the increased speed).

Should also combo very nicely with Illusionary Weaponry.

zigzag

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2005

R/W

Go best with IW only use it with IW,, and u buy it in lions arch

Lebdan

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Mo/Me

Though being a Me/W kind of shows the world you're using IW.

rii

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2005

UK

Not really to be quite frank. When i name myself I W, thats telling the world im iW. They still fail to shatter me though.

Vampiric Greenhorn

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

the clan of shadows

N/Mo

you do 0.25% less dmg in this stance

id0l

id0l

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

Austin, Texas, ya'll.

A/D

^ Uh...no. You deal 25% less damage in this stance. But your attack speed is increased by 33%, which equates to about 12-14% more damage over time than normal.

Supposedly, before last nights patch, skill buffs were running at 50% more damage instead of the listed 33%. Which means it was previously returning more than 12-13% damage over time (this would have been the same with Frenzy, Tiger's Fury, etc.). A shame. I would have rather seen an updated skill description (reading: your attack rate is increased by 50%) than a speed debuff. I hope they change this back to how it was.

Either way...

Nice for the extra damage, nice for the increased adrenaline, and really nice with a zealous weapon.

BannyD

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2005

Psycho Sanctus

Mo/Me

use it in conjunction with choking gas and a zealous string on a ranger...ultimate interruption

Epinephrine

Epinephrine

Master of Beasts

Join Date: Mar 2005

Ottawa, Canada

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

Flurry is becoming a safer bet now that stances are so easily seen in PvP; I suppose you can rely on switch back to sprint to cancel a frenzy, but I am seeing more warriors getting spiked after frenzying since the skillbar changes.

Shwitz

Shwitz

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

East Coast, USA

Not a Guild [NaG]

R/

How is the damage reduction calculated on this skill? For example -
If I am using a damage preparation with a bow, and then I activate Flurry, will Flurry reduce my weapon's base damage, or the damage after bow attack bonuses, or the damage after bow attack bonuses and my preparation bonus? Where in the equation does it fit in?

Amber Angyl

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Dec 2005

Phoinix Knights

W/Mo

Can also get this from Master Saberlin in Beacon's Perch by completing the Hungry Devourer Quest.

Former Ruling

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Oct 2005

Cedartown, Georgia

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shwitz
How is the damage reduction calculated on this skill? For example -
If I am using a damage preparation with a bow, and then I activate Flurry, will Flurry reduce my weapon's base damage, or the damage after bow attack bonuses, or the damage after bow attack bonuses and my preparation bonus? Where in the equation does it fit in? Flurry only affects attack dmg.

Prep dmg form like Kindle..Is calculated totally seperately from your attack.

bisurge

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2008

Erm...
Is this better or is Frenzy better for a Warrior/Monk?

Trvth Jvstice

Trvth Jvstice

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2006

HALE

W/

Frenzy, you Necro you! -Just take rush to cancel it if you start taking too much dmg.

Stormlord Alex

Stormlord Alex

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Dec 2005

Beyond the Forest of Doom, past the Cavern of Agony... on Kitten & Puppy Island

Soul of Melandru [sOm]

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by bisurge
Erm...
Is this better or is Frenzy better for a Warrior/Monk? Flurry if you're bad.
Frenzy if you're not bad.

Winterclaw

Winterclaw

Wark!!!

Join Date: May 2005

Florida

W/

Flurry increases your damage by about 12%.
Frenzy increases your damage by 50%.

As long as you have a cancel stance, use frenzy.