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Ok, I got surprise shot and ive tried using it but i have no idea what it does. The description for it isnt very helpful either. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It doesn't work as the description states. You can fire it from any position and you do not have to be under cover to use it. It is a random pool attack. Not sure what the time delay or damage multiplier is though.

HAM costs and time delay on Surpriseshot and Concealshot are basicallyidentical. The difference, however, is that Concealshot prevents the creature from aggroing on you unless you miss twice or are otherwise detected. Surpriseshot does not do that, but instead gets a 3.0x damage multiplier to Concealshot's 2.5x damage multipler.

So think of it as a Concealshot that trades the ability to keep from being seen for a little more damage.

Unlike Concealshot, it is also supposed to only be used from Cover, but as stated, your cover state does not seem to affect it right now.

I think surprise shot, surprises you as to how much it sucks.... No really..it's true.. I think it's in the description .. check it out.

It doesn't prevent aggro or anything so it's just a 3.0x damage 3.0x speed random pool single target attack. Useless since there's so many better attacks.

Why is this shot so bad? Unless I'm missing something it appears to be the highest damage single target random pool shot available..

It's not that much better then Conceal shot..and conceal shot doesn't get a creature mad at you.. so.. you can't really beat that.