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Has blind any effect?

A blinded foe hits with the same damage, he hits not less, he misses not more often, and he gets the same damage, as far as I can appraise this.

Do I miss something, or can I drop this style from my toolbar?

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Aniella (Gorath) Dancer, Fencer

blind drops your accuracy, but I'm not sure of the numbers. It may also drop your active defenses like dodge or counterattack, but I don't know for sure. Do not drop it from your bar though, blind works great against those NPCs and mobs with 4000+ health

Thank you for teh answer. Good to know, that it makes sense.

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Aniella (Gorath) Dancer, Fencer

Yeah...I haven't been able to decipher what blind is good for..the only reason it's in my toolbar is it does some pretty decent damage at semi-low HAM cost, for me at least

-Rynaurr Rhylin, Thing Commander

I haven't done any PvP so I can't speak for it's value there. I have been using it recently against creatures and I haven't noticed it doing much. I know if a creature blinds me I'm very reduced in combat ability but I don't see nearly that huge of a drop when I apply it to a creature, actually, I don't see any decline at all. I've been fighting rogue falumpasets lately since I live on Naboo and need herbivore meat for some advanced medical components. Since they tend to respawn wherever you find and kill them you can usually string together a few fights if you rest a bit between, so I did this for the meat and to test my new enhances, armor, and blind hit. Enhances and armor kick tail, wouldn't survive against a rogue falumpaset without one or the other, it's easy with both. But blind didn't seem to have any affect, I didn't notice any increase in it missing or me hitting more often. On several occassions I had a one ton+ blind andbleeding falumpaset dodge and counterattack several times during the duration of a single blind hit. At least dodge is working for the creatures, though how I could miss a falumpaset is beyond me. Anyway, either player blind is weaker than mob blind or those darn falumpasets have some really good to-hit rolls.

Blind reduces accuracy and weakens their defense. If a creature has high enough accuracy a reduce wont make him miss often enough. However at about even con blind causes creature to miss alot more often or at least in my trials.Also it adds about 10% damage to your strikes due to the enemies weakened defensive state. Its not enough that you see a great deal of variant of your normal shots but if you keep track of the numbers its is quite obvious it is there. For these reasons i always lead with blind on creatures and is my thirdhit on humanoids(dizzy lunge blind)It certainly doesnt hurt to use it andif the dice roll right it can be a big help.I know for sure of several incaps that it got me out of.

Good tactics here:

PvE: Bleed, blind, dizzy, special spam or normal attacks

PvP Dizzy, lunge, blind, bleed, special spam ( make this into a macro, and if you can get it off fast enough chances are you can get those kiting marksman, dont forget /follow)