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After reading the description of the counterattack on te skillbox, and what's happening on the combat log, I still can't figure it out yet.

The one of the skill box (ctrl-S), if you hold your mouse over it, says something like this:

This mod control you chance of responding to a aggressive attack with an unblockable counterattack

However, on the combat log, it would ofthen say something like this

So and so hit you, but you counterattacked! (what about the dmg you do on your counterattack?)

Now what i want to know is this: when you counterattack, what happens? Does the enemis hit go through and does damage? Not hit you (whichfrom what i saw/heard is actually the case)? Does it use up a second of your time to counterattack so your next attack in queue is actually slower as a result? The counterattack should be unblockable right? It missed too often though What dmg did the counterattack do? What happens when someone attack from a distance the counterattack mod activiated?

There seems to be a lot of holes surrounding this mod. I wouldn't mind getting some of those questions answered.

Daboora

Thanks for all your hardwork Gorecki! Happy Holidays to one of the best Correspondent out there.I hope the character copy in TC work soon (b4 I go BH for the stupid holocrons) as I want to upload my swordman to TC and help you out w/ sometesting.

from what i've gathered and posted on a few times is this

Counterattack acts as a sort of dodge type move, only instead of simply stopping the attack from damaging oneself, it attacks back instantly, with the damage of a non-special attack from whatever your using.

Your combat queue looks like this usually:

A Piket hits you for 400 damage!

You counterattack the Piket's blow for 340 damage!

This type of damage would be seen with say a 2h curved sword, the damage of 340 would be a non special's average area of damage.

actually I am sure its just like dodge or at least right now....b/c I watched a master swordsman CoB and just stand there while a master pistoleer just spammed fanshot at her and she Counter-Attacked like 85% the time and was taking no damage when she Counter-Attacked and did none to the pistoleer as well. Pistoleer was about 40m away. So basically we have a dodge with-out the animation me thinks.

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Daboora wrote:

There seems to be a lot of holes surrounding this mod. I wouldn't mind getting some of those questions answered.

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You're right. Same here. I actually re-posted a similar request to the Devs 2 days ago on Correspondent board. I hope that once the holidays are over we will also get an answer for this one. This won't be forgotten.

Thanks for your kind words and happy holidays.