Slashing Blade

# How it works

«Slashing Blade» is an active skill of «Berserker» and «Doombringer». It needs an equipped ancient sword. Cast time 1.5 seconds, cooldown 4 seconds, MP cost from 42 to 75 depending on the level.

The skill strikes around the character, there is no need to select a target. It hits monsters and players within a radius of 150 from the character (vertically - no farther than 200): from 6 to 17 targets each time, if there are that many around. Targets are picked when the cast starts and take damage when the skill fires, 1.5 seconds later - an opponent who manages to step away during that time still gets hit.

Not hit: members of your own party and command channel, players in a peace zone, siege allies. For other players the usual PvP rules apply, as for any area attack.

# How much damage it deals

Damage to each target is calculated separately:

damage = 76 × («P. Atk.» + skill power) × soulshot / target's «P. Def.»

- skill power - from the level table or the enchant; in PvP with the «Duel» enchant - its own PvP power; - soulshot: × 2 if a soulshot is used, otherwise × 1; - the target's «P. Def.» is increased by the shield's defense on a successful shield block; in PvP it is multiplied by the target's PvP skill defense bonus; - the target's weakness to ancient swords: for example, «Tribunal» and «Judgment» - up to × 1.2, «Stigma of Shilen» - up to × 1.4; - random weapon spread: ±15% for ancient swords; - in PvP - the attacker's PvP skill damage bonus; - the attacker's physical skill boosts: first the multipliers, for example «Final Secret» × 1.3, «Patience» and «Physical Pose» × 1.2 each; after them - a flat +93 from «Olf's T-shirt» enchanted to +7 or higher; - element - only with an element enchant, see the «Enchant» section; the weapon's element does not apply to this skill; - against monsters - skill damage bonuses against monsters (PvE) and damage bonuses against the monster's race; - at the end - the Souls bonus: +4% per Soul, no more than 5 Souls.

«Slashing Blade» has no critical hit: the skill never deals double damage, critical damage bonuses do not apply to it.

Example (PvP): «P. Atk.» 3 300, power 2 740 (level 31), soulshot, target's «P. Def.» 2 400, target's defense bonus × 1.06, attacker's bonus × 1.10, 5 Souls. 76 × (3 300 + 2 740) × 2 / (2 400 × 1.06) = 360; × 1.10 = 396; × 1.20 for 5 Souls = 475 damage (±15%).

PvP damage to one target: level 31 / «Duel» enchant +20

Souls bonus

# What protects

- Evasion of physical skills: each target is checked separately, one that evades takes no damage. - Shield: if a target with a shield faces the attacker, a perfect block triggers with a 10% chance - damage 1. Otherwise, on a successful block the shield's defense is added to the target's «P. Def.». - «P. Def.» and PvP physical skill defense bonuses. - Do not keep ancient sword weakness debuffs on yourself («Tribunal» , «Judgment» , «Stigma of Shilen» ): removing them brings the damage back to normal. - Elemental resistance - only against the skill with an element enchant: without it the strike has no element, even if the weapon has an attribute.

# Enchant

Enchanting opens from skill level 31.

- «Power» - skill power from 2 907 to 3 480 (after 2 740 at level 31). - «Cost» - MP cost from 75 down to 37, power grows to 2 900. - four elemental attack routes (fire, water, wind, earth) - the strike gets an element with a power of 1 to 50; if the weapon has an attribute of the same element, its power is added (except when a pet rather than a servitor is summoned). Skill power stays at 2 740. - «Duel» - against players power from 2 788 to 4 177, against monsters it stays at 2 740.

Enchant: power by route

Elemental damage multiplier

# Tested on the server

Battles from 5 to 16 October 2026 were analysed: 103 hits on players, 76 casts, 7 «Doombringer» characters.

- Player targets per cast: 1 - in 64 cases, 2 - in 5, 3 - in 4, 4 - in 2, 9 - in 1 (monsters are not counted in this log). - Element: all 103 hits had no elemental bonus, including one hit with an earth enchant +24 (power 40) - the target's earth resistance was not lower. - Critical hits - 0 out of 103, as the skill's rules imply. - Shield: 4 hits - a regular block, 1 - a perfect block (damage 1); one more hit with damage 1 was recorded before the log started marking shields. - Damage to a player: from 1 to 1 669, median 576. Attackers' «P. Atk.» - from 1 794 to 6 507, targets' «P. Def.» - from 435 to 11 636. - Hit range in the log - up to 188: an opponent stepping away during the 1.5-second cast still gets hit. - Damage: 97 hits without a shield block and without damage 1 were checked. 16 of them happened before the log started recording the attacker's buffs, so their boosts cannot be checked. The other 81 were compared with the formula of this section: the boost multiplier was taken only from whether the buff was on the attacker at the moment of the hit, the +93 bonus - one per attacker, by the enchant of their «Olf's T-shirt» (three of the seven have +10, three are below +7, one changed the T-shirt after the battles). 78 of 81 matched, allowing for the ±15% spread: 49 - without boost buffs, 23 - with «Final Secret» , 6 - with «Physical Pose» . Of these, 3 hits by one attacker match only if he wore a +7 or higher T-shirt that day - which one is unknown, he has a different one now. 3 hits are not explained by the formula. The log does not record the number of absorbed Souls, so from 0 to 5 Souls were allowed for each hit - this makes the check looser. For comparison: if random damage is substituted for the real one, this check passes from 21% to 34% of hits, and without accounting for buffs 56 of 81 match.