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Great Weapon Fighter - Facts

moonbamoonba Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 38
edited June 2013 in PvE Discussion
I'm putting together a simple and easy to read list of GWF facts to help other players understand more in-depth mechanics without having to spend hours reading logs on target dummies :')

I'll use colors to help you guys understand directly what we're talking about here :
  • Green = At-Wills
  • Red = Encounters
  • Orange = Dailies
  • Yellow = Class Features
  • Light Blue = Feats


So here goes GWF Facts:
  • Weapon Master Strike reduces Damage Resistance against your At-Wills by 30%
  • Student of the Sword increases damage dealt to your target by 5% per stack (?)
  • Steel Blitz has 3%/20%/40%/... chance to proc depending on how many targets are hit by your sweeps
  • Steel Blitz can proc on-hit effects like any other attack

The points ending with a question mark are subject to confirmation by other players.

Feel free to contribute to this thread, i'll try to update it regularly.
Post edited by moonba on

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  • ioannides5ioannides5 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Don't forget the best fact! GWFs are completely useless in dungeons and least desired class. Best fact of all.
  • moonbamoonba Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 38
    edited June 2013
    Based on ACT calculations, it seems the proc from Steel Blitz has 3% chance to happen when striking 1 target, 20% when striking 2 targets, 40% when striking 3.
    I'm guessing it goes on to 60/80/100 for 4/5/6 targets but I can't make sure since there aren't enough dummies in PE.

    Steel Blitz deals exactly your weapon damage as it's base, increased by 24% if you have increased this power to rank 3.

    Steel Blitz can "proc" any on-hit effect you may have.

    I'll add a log here to prove that :
    (I put colors to differentiate the different dummies hit. I used the sweeping motion to determine the order.)
    [COLOR="#FF0000"][Combat (Self)] Critical Hit! Your Weapon Master's Strike deals 758 (722) Physical to Target Dummy.

[Combat (Self)] Your Lightning Weapon deals 157 (150) Lightning to Target Dummy.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="#00000"][Combat (Self)] Your Weapon Master's Strike deals 371 Physical to Target Dummy.

[Combat (Self)] Your Lightning Weapon deals 151 Lightning to Target Dummy.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="#0000FF"][Combat (Self)] Your Weapon Master's Strike deals 374 Physical to Target Dummy.

[Combat (Self)] Your Lightning Weapon deals 153 Lightning to Target Dummy.

[Combat (Self)] Your Tenebrous Power deals 273 Necrotic to Target Dummy.

[Combat (Self)] Your Tenebrous Power deals 273 Necrotic to Target Dummy.
[/COLOR]
[Combat (Self)] Your Lightning Arc deals 180 (172) Lightning to Target Dummy.

[Combat (Self)] Your Lightning Arc deals 154 Lightning to Target Dummy.

[Combat (Self)] Critical Hit! Your Steel Blitz deals 1909 (1818) Physical to Target Dummy.

[COLOR="#0000FF"][Combat (Self)] Critical Hit! Your Weapon Master's Strike deals 1081 (772) Physical to Target Dummy.

[Combat (Self)] Your Lightning Weapon deals 173 (157) Lightning to Target Dummy.

[Combat (Self)] Your Tenebrous Power deals 273 Necrotic to Target Dummy.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="#000000"][Combat (Self)] Critical Hit! Your Weapon Master's Strike deals 991 (734) Physical to Target Dummy.

[Combat (Self)] Your Lightning Weapon deals 176 (167) Lightning to Target Dummy.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="#FF0000"][Combat (Self)] Your Lightning Weapon deals 176 (168) Lightning to Target Dummy.

[Combat (Self)] Critical Hit! Your Weapon Master's Strike deals 1062 (786) Physical to Target Dummy.

[Combat (Self)] Your Tenebrous Power deals 273 Necrotic to Target Dummy.[/COLOR]

[Combat (Self)] Your Lightning Arc deals 186 (169) Lightning to Target Dummy.

[COLOR="#DAA520"]][B][SIZE=3][Combat (Self)] Your Steel Blitz deals 1038 (944) Physical to Target Dummy.

[Combat (Self)] Your Lightning Arc deals 148 (141) Lightning to Target Dummy.[/SIZE][/B][/COLOR]


    That's just one WMS sweep, but you can see clearly the Steel Blitz proc and the Lightning Arc that followed.
  • th0rfinnth0rfinn Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 119 Bounty Hunter
    edited June 2013
    ioannides5 wrote: »
    Don't forget the best fact! GWFs are completely useless in dungeons and least desired class. Best fact of all.

    You are bad.
  • ganjaman1ganjaman1 Member Posts: 792 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    ioannides5 wrote: »
    Don't forget the best fact! GWFs are completely useless in dungeons and least desired class. Best fact of all.

    Definitely not the GWFs I invite in my DD groups , you must be running T1s son .
    http://youtu.be/kiEPiETiVnU?t=4m5s
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