Break Stance

Spend initiative to break your blocking stance and immediately initiate the nine-tailed strike. — In-game description

Break Stance

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Spear

Sequence

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Game link

API

13130

This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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Break Stance

Spend initiative to break your blocking stance and immediately initiate the nine-tailed strike.

— In-game description

Related traits

Acrobatics

• Assassin's Reward — Heal yourself whenever you use a skill that uses initiative. Heal yourself for each point of initiative spent.

Trickery

• Lead Attacks — Increases all damage dealt per initiative spent. Steal gains reduced recharge time.

Notes

• Nine-Tailed Strike and this skill can be spammed to dump all of your initiative.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 08, 2018	Nine-Tailed Strike: Increased the damage of this skill by 32%, adding 1 stack of vulnerability for 9 seconds for each hit, and increased the number of attacks from 8 to 9. The following Break Stance sequence skill now allows the thief to spend 2 more initiative to immediately activate the attack portion of the skill.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Break Stance has been added to the game.