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Battlemaster Abilities

1 Sapping Strike - any weapon style that has med dmg, high cost, bonus to hit,penalty to defense, blinds target for 5 seconds (no resistances applied)
2 Faultfinder - +10% Parry/+10% Evade/-35% Dmg Stance (intended to be comboed with Bodyguard or Parry Guard)
3 Power Leak - any weapon style that costs 100 fatigue (full fatigue), when it hits an object, damage isn't divided by 30
4 Grapple - any weapon style that drains 50 fatigue, does low damage, has bonus to hit, penalty to defense
5 Essence Flames - any weapon style that drains 35% of the target's current power, does low damage, has bonus to hit, penalty to defense
6 Throw Weapon - do a ranged attack at 700 range using melee damage formulas; cannot attack with normal melee for two full rounds (based on weapon's attack timer) afterwards
7 Essence Sear - style that chains off of Essence Flames, procs an Essence resist debuff on nearby enemies
8 Bodyguard - Defensive chances (evade/parry) are reduced by 20%, but target of bodyguard can't be attacked in melee until bodyguard is killed or moves out of range.
9 Essence Dampen - Style that procs a PBAE suppress that reduces the value of strength/con buffs by 40, removing them if they go below zero.
10 Essence Shatter - removes a random buff from an opponent, AE

1 Sapping Strike - any weapon style that has med dmg, high cost, bonus to hit,penalty to defense, blinds target for 5 seconds (no resistances applied)

Battlemaster MLA 1 - Sapping Strike (Style)
Position: Anytime
Effect: Sapping Strike (Target's endurance is reduced by 50%)
Damage: High
Fatigue Cost: High (On my armsman it is around 50%)
Damage: High
To-Hit Bonus: High
Defense Penalty: Medium Penalty
There is no timer on Sapping Strike.
- Omnimon Espiritus

- Sapping Strike and Power Leak will now have fixed endurance costs.   (from 11/11 patch notes)

I just received the sapping strike ability and every hit during a duel, the opponent received a message that only 25% of his endurance was reduced.   Dec 3
- Mcstein

Sapping Strike drains 1/2 of your opponents End. Does not blind.   Nov 14
- Orenevl

Just wanted to note, since the last patch Battlemaster ML1 ability Sapping Strike is no longer PBAoE. Apr 24 2004
- Antaro

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2 Faultfinder - object only 20.0DPS damage add

This ability is for doors

The Faultfinder style has been removed and replaced with a Faultfinder ability. The ability is an object only damage add, with a reuse timer of 2 minutes. The damage add is a 20.0DPS bonus. - (1.76 patch notes)

3 Power Leak - any weapon style that costs 100 fatigue (full fatigue), when it hits an object, damage isn't divided by 30

- Sapping Strike and Power Leak will now have fixed endurance costs.   (from 11/11 patch notes)

Power Leak. Hit a bard for low dmg, took 50% of my end and about 16% of his power.    Nov 16
- Seter

This is a weapon style that drains 17-21% of the targets power at a cost of 50% of your endurance. Again, if you get blocked, parried, evaded you are still out 50% of your endurance. Also, just like sapping strike, it CAN BE RESISTED. From my testing it would appear to be resisted much more than sapping strike. The power leak ability is also a very small radius effect.    Nov 16
- Uludar

hmmm it has an aoe effect again as i understand it.    Nov 16
- Arthoron

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4 Grapple - any weapon style that drains 50 fatigue, does low damage, has bonus to hit, penalty to defense

Battlemaster 4 is grapple (100% snare on you and your target, so it would be used to stop a tank from charging past you and onto your healers) Nov 23
- Bakedbeans

Grapple will now have a one minute re-use timer. (1.87 patch notes)

Grappled targets can no longer be attacked in melee (you will still be able to attack with arrows). Additionally, Grapple now correctly stuns the caster for 12 seconds. This fixes a bug that allowed the caster doing the grappling to continue casting other spells.
(1.68 patch, Feb 19, 2004)

Grapple is an ability that works at about 100 range. It roots your target in place and you in place for about 10 seconds. During this time you cannot attack, nor can your attacker attack. I did not see any resists either which is very good. It also does not have a recaster timer.    Nov 23
- Uladar

With the current implementation of Grapple, if your target dies while grappled, you (the caster of Grapple) remain stunned for the duration of the effect. So if you cast Grapple and your opponent is immediately killed, you are stunned for 10 seconds. Feb 18
- Ciaine

Regarding Speed of Sound: Your target is still grappled. The difference is they can still move-SoS trumps ANY ability that causes immobilization.   Jan 20
- Hoirip

grapple cannot be purged    Nov 23
- Alcara Argenta

There's no recast timer on the ability, so you can just continue to "spam" or hit the grapple button over and over and over again, resetting that 10 second timer over and over and over again.    Nov 27
- Sivitri Quisinthol

50% fatigue   Nov 27
- Star_dogg

Stun compared to Grapple:
-stun lasts 1 second less (lol, I know :-) )
-after the 9secs expired you are immune to stun for 1 minute (and maybe you moc within this minute)
-stun is purgeable!
-Albion only: stun immunity during SOS

-grapple can be chained
-grapple has no immunity timer
-grapple cannot be purged
-grapple isn't affected by bt, guard, and hit/miss   Nov 27
- Ignaz2

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5 Essence Flames - any weapon style that drains 35% of the target's current power, does low damage, has bonus to hit, penalty to defense

Weapon style that has a high endurance cost (nothing like the previous abilities), high to-hit and procs essence flames. Essence Flames is a proc that is Area Effect that allows the user to have a chance of gaining extra essence damage (when you get hit by it it says the effect is permanent).
In a duel situation it did not appear to do anything. No noticable damage increase at all, but will post more with further testing. Nov 30
- Uladar

Battlemaster further testing. I used this ability in PvE, basically it is a weapon style that gives you a buff where you then have a chance to proc the Essence Flames. For me the endurance cost is 40% of my endurance pool. The effect appears to last only about 10 seconds. The damage done was around 175, and it is not like a normal spell effect, it is more like an additional attack.
The Proc from Essence flames does not appear to go off all that often, pretty much the same chance to go off as a normal weapon proc. The up side is that it is area effect, giving all your realm mates the ability to proc Essence Flames damage. Nov 30
- Uladar

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6 Throw Weapon - do a ranged attack at 700 range using melee damage formulas; cannot attack with normal melee for two full rounds (based on weapon's attack timer) afterwards

Throw weapon seems kinda fun. Just got it last night so haven't tried it in rvr. Doesn't seem to have a very long range though, I'd compare it to shorter than my short bow range. Dec 20
- Seter

"How many times can you throw a weapon before it wears off?"
One throw. Then it depends on your weapon speed when you can attack again. Anywhere from 6-10 seconds I'd say.
And it does PF.
Yes, you can use it while moving. It is a melee style and all styles can be used while moving. Feb 26
- Khail Wayland

The Throw Weapon ML ability now checks to see if the user has line of sight to the target before firing.
(1.68 patch, Feb 19, 2004)

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7 Essence Sear - style that chains off of Essence Flames, procs an Essence resist debuff on nearby enemies

8 Bodyguard - Defensive chances (evade/parry) are reduced by 20%, but target of bodyguard can't be attacked in melee until bodyguard is killed or moves out of range.

Screen shot of the effect, and another screen shot Jan 20
- Yihr

The person being bodyguarded has to stand still (you can rotate, but you cannot move your feet). Don't af the bodyguard because the bodyguard guy can still move around within a certain range of the person he is bodyguarding. Casters can still interrupt and kill the person being bodyguarded, but melee attacks cannot touch him.
Bodyguard does not work in pve.

When Bodyguard fails because the user is preparing a shot or casting, it will now print a message to the user.
Bodyguard will no longer borrow a re-use timer from Camouflage. (patch notes v1.70 Jun 22 2004)

I found that when the person bodyguarding someone casts a spell While that person is casting the person being bodyguarded can be hit.
I am a Warden, the spells I tried were Healing and Haste, As for instas you can still use them while bodyguarding. I was bodyguarding a Bard, I used my Bubble i.e. Insta and he did not get hit. Apr 3 2004

Extra Bodyguard checks are now made to prevent multiple/chained Bodyguards.
(from 1.67f release notes Jan 28)

"Can the person guarding still fight with weapons without breaking the guard?" Yes

"Can the person being guarded still fight with melee without breaking the guard?" if the person stands still. Jan 20
- Niila Soulblaze

If an enemy is attacking a bodyguarded person they will get the message "You have to kill <name>" which is the name of bodyguard. Jan 20
- Murphys

Bodyguard does work, just have to be within 500 units of the guarded person, who cannot move. The Bodyguard can move around and fight and still protect the person, and that person can cast and melee, just has to stand still. So, its very nice for guarding a healer/caster from assist train.
It doesn't seem to have a limit on how many people it can stop, the most I've seen is 5 people's spam at once when I used it to protect a pbae'er. Jan 20
- Meeligrum

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9 Essence Dampen - Style that procs a PBAE suppress that reduces the value of strength/con buffs by 40, removing them if they go below zero.

Essense Dampen, dex/qui pbaoe debuff style. Took 39% end and debuffed my champ friend for 35 dex and 29 quick with dmg just above base dmg... not worth it. Jan 31
- Seter

The special part of this ability is that when you do it you hover for about 4-5 sec after doing it.
The ML 9 Essence Dampen is not positional, and it is anytime use. screen shot of doing this ability Apr 14 2004 - Filonias

ML 9 Battlemaster Ability is Essence Dampen. PBAE Dex/Quick debuff style, 25 value Jan 1
- Gilean

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10 Essence Shatter - removes a random buff from an opponent

Essence Shatter is a chain off the ML9 essence dampen style. This is how it delves, which kind of sux, because our neat ML10 ability is the second in a chain that starts off with a side style. Apr 9 2004

It's an AE random buff removal. Not sure on the radius but used it last night with 3 enemy tanks around me and it gave me the message of each person having a different buff removed. Apr 26 2004

Takes a ton of end, but removes a random buff off your opponent. Feb 11
- Seven

Essence Shatter will no longer strip pulsing buffs (this includes buffs received from fonts).
If a concentration buff is stripped by Essence Shatter, the caster should have his/her concentration pool restored.
If a focus shell is stripped by Essence Shatter, the caster should no longer continue to be power drained.
If Essence Shatter successfully strips a buff, the name of the buff stripped is reported to the caster. (1.69 patch, Apr 14 2004)

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