Feint

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Job Ability Information
Job Thief
Type Merit
Description Your next attack will greatly reduce an enemy's evasion.
Duration Next successful attack or 00:01:00, whichever first.
Recast 00:02:00
Cumulative Enmity 0 Volatile Enmity 320
Command /ja "Feint" <me> 
Merit Points
Group 2 Ranks Available 5
Effect of each Rank Increases chance of Treasure Hunter level increase by 25% for each rank beyond the first.

Notes

  • Evasion -150, which degrades by 10 each tick until wearing off at 50.
  • The Evasion Down effect lasts for 30 seconds once a feint-enhanced blow lands.
  • Feint is often utilized for "zerging" certain monsters, due to the severe nature of its Evasion Down effect.
  • Despite the somewhat ambiguous wording, additional merits into Feint increase the Treasure Hunter level up rate by 25% for each merit beyond the first rank. The Treasure Hunter level up rate can be increased to a maximum of +100% at 5/5 merits into Feint, or doubling of the base rate while the enemy has the Feint debuff active. It does not automatically make the hit which applies Feint to also level up Treasure Hunter.

 

Equipment Modifying Ability...
Equipment Piece Modifier
Assassin's Culottes +2 AugRank.png: Feint will give another -10 Evasion per merit level.
Plun. Culottes AugRank.png: Feint will give another -10 Evasion per merit level.
Plun. Culottes +1 AugRank.png: Feint will give another -10 Evasion per merit level.
Plun. Culottes +2 AugRank.png: Feint will give another -10 Evasion per merit level.
Plun. Culottes +3 AugRank.png: Feint will give another -10 Evasion per merit level.

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