Vital Strike

Vital Strike
Type:	Offensive Skill
Levels:	10, selectable
SP Cost:	12~20
Cast Delay:	0.8/1 second
Target:	Enemy
Range:	5 cells
Status:	Various
Weapon:	Spear
Status Icon:
Prerequisites
(Knight) Cavalier Mastery Lv. 3, (Lord Knight) Traumatic Blow Lv. 3

Vital Strike (Alt: Joint Beat) is a Transcendent 2^nd class offensive skill available as Lord Knight.

Effect

Strikes a single target with a painful blow to inflict ranged physical damage. It has a chance of inflicting one of 6 status effects.

Level	Damage (ATK)	Base Chance of Effect	Cast Delay	SP Cost
1	60%	10%	0.8s	12
2	70%	15%
3	80%	20%		14
4	90%	25%
5	100%	30%		16
6	110%	35%	1.0s
7	120%	40%		18
8	130%	45%
9	140%	50%		20
10	150%	55%

Chance of Effect = Base_Chance_of_Effect − (Target_STR × 0.27)
Duration of Effect = [30 − (Target_AGI ÷ 10) − (Target_LUK ÷ 4)]s

Effects on the target

Joint Status	Effect
Ankle Break	Halves Movement Speed
Knee Break	Decreases Movement Speed by 30% and ASPD by 10%
Wrist Break	Decreases ASPD by 25%
Shoulder Break	Halves soft defense
Waist Break	Decreases soft defense by 25% and attack by 25%
Neck Break	Doubles damage from this skill, leaves vulnerable to Critical Hits (?) and inflicts Bleeding.

Notes

• Has a mediocre damage. Below level 4 this skill has a negative damage.
• There is no visual indication of success upon inflicting a status effect besides general observation.
• The statuses all stack.
• The duration of the statuses are reset each time a status is inflicted.

External

Bestowed from

• Hunting Spear - Level 3; autocast on target when attacking