Long Thrust

Draw the spear back like a bowstring and send the point a man's height and more.

Mode

Charge

Used with

Spear, Shortspear

Stamina

12

Cooldown

none

Range

3 tiles

Price

140 gold

Needs first

nothing

What it does

The Power Blow's trigger (core.power_blow, Ring-craft section 5): a press always thrusts at once; keep LMB held past that thrust's end (and at least 0.18 s from the press) and, instead of an auto-repeat, the point is drawn back and charges 0 to 1 over 0.8 s with a spear or 0.6 s with a shortspear (divided by attack speed x weapon speed); walk x0.45, no sprint, face the aim; Space dodges out (charge lost). Stamina as the Power Blow's, paid as the draw begins: spear 12, shortspear 11. Release: one thrust in the class cone (spear 34 deg, shortspear 40 deg) reaching the class reach + 0.3 + 0.4c tiles (spear up to 3.0, shortspear up to 2.45), power lerp(1.3, 1.8, c), poise lerp(8, 20, c), knock x(1 + 0.6c). At full charge the hero lunges 0.5 tile with it (a moveBox step: a wall stops the step, not the thrust), the blow is unparryable (noParry), and the first foe struck counts as a tip blow at any distance beyond 1 tile. Released under 0.15 charge: a plain thrust, the extra stamina refunded. Held 1.0 s at full: it fires itself. One fresh HitSpec per release. It trades the Power Blow's +10 % crit and higher poise for 0.7 tile more reach and the lunge. Replaces core.power_blow while a spear or shortspear is in hand; the command pilot's synthetic presses never charge it.

Edge: Ash-Bend

Full draw 25 % sooner (spear 0.6 s, shortspear 0.45 s).