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Last night I reached master offensive and gained the Area Attack 3 ability. After using it for a bit I started to notice that my enemies were being knocked down .. I thought at first it was my pet that was doing it but it's never knocked anything down before so it had to have been me. On closer investigation, I found that hitting a mob with the Area Attack 3 then following up with a different attack knocked those mobs down (flat on their backs vs the prone position). I'll have to play with it some more tonight but thought I would post here to see if anyone has seen this same thing.

The description of the skill : "This powerful attack can blind and damage and lower the posture of multiple targets simultaneously"

I didn't see any targets go blind out of a few hundred uses but I saw a lot of them flat out on their backs. Could this be a bug? I hope not heh.

Perhaps you should try to follow up with a different secondary attack..

Maybe it's like a combo manuver.. /shrug

I thought the description of area 3 was lower stance and dizzy so the other attack you did prob lowered stance as well and when you lower stance someone when dizzy the get kd.

Did some more testing last night and it seemed pretty spotty at best. I put away my creature and went soloing.. went up to some humans started off with the area 3 attack and did it again to get them prone, started a different attack and after they all stood up again they fell on their backs. I didn't have very much time to say for sure this is what was happening but it looks that way now. Any one else have area attack 3 care to comment?

Area3 can cause the Dizzy Status effect. Posture change + dizzy can cause you to fall on your back.

Yes, its the dizzy =)

i personally don't have offense 4 yet (went for the other two)

but I use the flurry shot from rifleman's tree for the dizzy, then i jump in and do sweep (lower stance)

the problem is the rate at which it works is not often...

like i would dizzy them, sweep them.. they'd stand up.. i'll sweep sweep til they prone.. they stand up. we fight fight fight.. then suddenly they fall.. and they'll twitch at the ground =D ta da..

anyone know if this only works in human char?