Sonic Storm

# How it works

«Gladiator» learns «Sonic Storm» from level 49, the last, 28th skill level - from character level 74. «Duelist» gets the skill together with the class.

Conditions: a sword (one-handed or two-handed), a blunt weapon or dual swords in hand, and at least 2 energy charges accumulated. Charges are gathered by «Sonic Focus» : «Gladiator» - up to 7, «Duelist» - up to 8 (level 8 of «Sonic Focus» - from character level 79). Another 1 charge each comes from «Sonic Mastery» - with a 15% chance on a regular attack hit, at most 1 time every 10 seconds - and from «Sonic Rage» of «Duelist» (from level 78, only with dual swords).

One cast consumes 3 «Energy Stone» and from 55 to 90 MP (depending on the skill level). Range - 500, base cast time - 1.9 seconds, reuse - after 3 seconds. Over-hit on monsters is possible. The skill has no additional effects (stuns, debuffs) - only damage.

# Area and number of targets

The strike hits the selected enemy and all enemies within a radius of 150 around it (not around the fighter himself). The number of targets per cast is limited by a random number from 5 to 16, counting the main target; extra enemies in the radius are not hit.

The set of targets is determined at the moment of the strike, not at the start of the cast: whoever entered the radius during that time is hit too. Not hit: those the fighter cannot see (behind a wall or an obstacle), those who are farther than 1000 from the fighter at the moment of the strike or stand in a peace zone - including the main target.

Who «Sonic Storm» does not hit:

1. your own party and command channel;
2. your clan and alliance - except arenas and cases when the clans are at war with each other;
3. players in a peace zone;
4. outside PvP zones - other players without a PvP flag and without karma (except clan wars and sieges); with Ctrl a player without a flag can also be the main target, but players without a flag around him are still not hit;
5. guards - without Ctrl outside an arena;
6. at a siege - your siege allies.

A duel opponent is always hit.

# How much damage

Damage to each target is calculated separately:

damage = («P. Atk.» + power) × 77 × charge multiplier × 2 (with a soulshot) / target's «P. Def.»

1. Power - by skill level: 457 at level 28, up to 581 with the power enchant; with the «Duel» route enchant against players, their pets and servitors - up to 696.
2. Charge multiplier = 1 + 0.2 × (charges - 1): charges are not spent, so every strike at 8 charges goes with × 2.4.
3. Without a soulshot the damage is halved.
4. If the target blocked the strike with a shield, the shield's defense is added to its «P. Def.»; on a perfect block the damage is 1. A shield blocks only if the target faces the fighter.
5. Against monsters the damage is multiplied by the physical skill damage bonus against monsters (for example, «Anakim's Blessing Rune» , «Efficacy of Strength» ).
6. Against a player the damage is further multiplied by the fighter's PvP skill damage bonuses and divided by the target's PvP skill defense (belts, PvP weapons and armor).
7. Critical hit - × 2 (see below).

There is no random spread: with the same stats on both sides the damage is the same, the fractional part is dropped. Position (from the side, from behind) does not change the damage by itself, but from behind or from the side the target cannot block the strike with a shield. The level difference does not affect damage. The target's weakness to the fighter's weapon type (for example, to dual swords) is taken into account.

Damage by number of charges: «P. Atk.» 5 000, target's «P. Def.» 2 500, with a soulshot, no crit and no PvP bonuses

Damage by target's «P. Def.»: 8 charges / 2 charges, power 457, with a soulshot, no crit and no PvP bonuses

# Critical hit

The crit chance of «Sonic Storm» is set by the skill itself: 15% × the fighter's «STR» bonus. «Crit. Rate» from the character window, crit rate buffs and standing behind the target do not affect it.

A crit doubles the damage - exactly × 2. The fighter's critical damage (buffs and items for crit damage) does not affect this multiplier, and the target's critical damage reduction (for example, «Chant of Protection» ) does not lower it.

Crit chance by the fighter's «STR»

# PvP, pets and defense

Some bonuses work only against players or only against monsters:

1. The fighter's PvP skill damage bonuses and the target's PvP skill defense - only when the target is a player; they do not count against pets and servitors.
2. Physical skill damage boosts - for example, «Final Secret» (× 1.3), «Patience» and «Physical Pose» (× 1.2 each), «Olf's T-shirt» from +7 (+93 to skill damage) - boost «Sonic Storm» only against players: against monsters, pets and servitors their bonus does not apply.
3. The power of the «Duel» route enchant works against players, their pets and servitors, but not against monsters.
4. Against monsters PvP damage bonuses are not counted; instead the physical skill damage bonus against monsters applies (runes and buffs, for example «Anakim's Blessing Rune» ).

Defense against «Sonic Storm» :

1. «P. Def.» - damage is inversely proportional to it;
2. shield block (only facing the fighter; a perfect block - with a 10% chance): on a successful block the shield's defense is added to «P. Def.», on a perfect block the damage is 1;
3. evasion of physical skills;
4. PvP skill defense (players only);
5. elemental resistance - only against an element enchant.

«Counterattack» and other effects that respond to physical skills do not trigger on «Sonic Storm» : they respond only to melee skills with a range of up to 40, and «Sonic Storm» has 500. Skill damage reflection does not work either.

# Enchant

Enchanting is available from character level 76, each route has 30 steps. The required skill magic level grows from 76 to 85.

Enchant routes

# Tested on the server

PvP battle log for 05.10-16.10.2026: 1 368 hits of «Sonic Storm» on players, their pets and servitors, 986 casts, 4 fighters. The log does not record hits on monsters.

1. Damage. 65 strikes were blocked by a shield, 13 - by a perfect block (damage 1, as it should be). The other strikes since 06.10 (1 184 of them) were compared with the formula above: skill damage boosts were taken from the fighter's buff log at the moment of the strike, the +93 bonus from «Olf's T-shirt» - one per fighter, not per strike; only the number of charges (from 2 to 8) and the soulshot were fitted - the log does not record them. 1 113 strikes (94%) matched within 1%; for random numbers of the same size such fitting matches 17-19%.
2. Player-only bonuses. For the fighter with «Olf's T-shirt» +10, 780 strikes on players out of 827 matched - with the +93 bonus and × 1.3 from «Final Secret» in the seconds when the buff was on him; without them - 64. His strikes on pets and servitors match without these bonuses.
3. Crit. The chance by «STR» was checked on 544 strikes where the fighter's «STR» is known («STR» 40-52): 123 crits against 133 expected - within the random spread. A crit doubled the damage also against targets with reduced crit damage (198 such strikes).
4. Targets. Against players and their pets - from 1 to 6 targets per cast: one 722 times, two 177 times, three 63, four or more 24.
5. Real stats: fighters' «P. Atk.» - 2 900-8 300 (median 5 100), targets' «P. Def.» - 1 400-6 500 (median 2 400), damage of one hit - 360-3 200 (median 1 160).