Root and Bark

Plant your feet like an old oak and let them come. Oaks don't step aside.

Mode

Stance

Used with

Any, Unarmed

Stamina

10

Cooldown

3s

Price

110 gold

Needs first

nothing

What it does

Toggle. 0.25 s to set your feet (no moving meanwhile). While rooted: no sprint and no dodge, movement x0.6; knockback, flinch and heavy-blow stagger can't move you; foes' technique stagger fills your poise at half rate; every hit takes 15 % less (after armour); Fury from hits taken x1.5. Upkeep: stamina regeneration x0.6. Breaks on a guard break, a stun, a grapple, a shape change or a second press, then 3 s before it can be set again. LMB still swings and techniques still work.

Edge: Heartwood

Hits take 20 % less while rooted (from 15 %). Honed by taking 3 hits while rooted in the bout.