Forestroke

See the blow coming and strike first, through it.

Mode

Reflex

Used with

Any

Stamina

31

Fury

25

Cooldown

6s

Range

1.9 tiles

Price

2,200 gold

Needs first

Riposte, Slip-Cut

What it does

Strike first. LMB while a foe in front (45 degrees either side, within the weapon's reach + 0.4 tile) is in the last 0.25 s of a melee windup (attack kind melee or sting, or a person's swing or charge-up; the telegraph tells the time): the hero's blow comes out at windup 0.04 s with power 2.8, stagger 30, unparryable, and breaks that attack (State.Recover, pack token released, cooldowns +0.8 s); an S body's 30 poise is filled at once. On L bodies, named beasts and Deep bosses the attack is broken only when it is a plain bite or swipe (never a slam, charge or leap), and their poise takes the 30. Too early, too late or no windup: a plain swing, nothing spent. Costs the class's swing stamina + 24 (dagger 29, sword 31, warhammer 41) and 25 Fury; 6 s cooldown. To heroes who know it, a foe's telegraph flickers white for 1 frame as the window opens.

Edge: Second Sight

The window widens 28 % (the last 0.25 to the last 0.32 s of the windup).