There's a buff called Assassin's Focus on your buff bar. Each stack grants your AS attack 33% chance to crit out of hide. All stalkers have this. The orange ring appears when you have 3 stacks, indicating a 100% chance to crit.
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okay... I remember reading about that.. I thought that's why I was getting the orange ring, but it doesn't stay there. It seems if I don't use it as soon as it appears, the next power will kill the orange ring and it doesn't come back. If I don't use it and I go down to no stacks, when I come back up to 3 stacks, I don't get the orange ring again. I'm thinking I have to go into hide and come out of hide before it comes back.|
Originally Posted by Polydeuces
There's a buff called Assassin's Focus on your buff bar. Each stack grants your AS attack 33% chance to crit out of hide. All stalkers have this. The orange ring appears when you have 3 stacks, indicating a 100% chance to crit.
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I'll do some more play testing tonight and see if I can discover a pattern.
You don't hit smiling monsters - Sister Flame
There's two things you can pay attention to. The Assassin Focus icon on your buffs section. You can have zero, one, two and three. It's only when you have three that there's a 100% chance to crit and the orange rings appear.
Each stack lasts 5 seconds (I think) so if the orange ring disspears before you use A.S. it most likely means one focus faded, so there's still a good crit chance. If you have two you have a 66.66% crit chance which is still mighty good.
I'd be happier if instead we got a bar like brutes get. The orange rings confuse me with Street Justice, Staff, and Dual Blades till I get the hand of how they work. Then it is all fine and dandy.
But that's more of a nitpick than anything.
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And there's no need to go back to hide, you can get 100% crit form un hidden A.S. plenty of time before going back into Hidden state.
Also, each attach only has a chance to give focus. Iirc, longer recharge powers have a higher chance. So slash slash slash A.S. doesn't always work.
In practice I try to aim for 3 focus, but don't really stress over it. I my other attacks are recharging and/or I have 2 focus, I click it.
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Originally Posted by Tormentoso
Also, each attach only has a chance to give focus. Iirc, longer recharge powers have a higher chance. So slash slash slash A.S. doesn't always work.
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THAT'S the piece of information I was missing. That's why I wasn't getting the orange ring after every 3 attacks.
Thanks.
You don't hit smiling monsters - Sister Flame
I just picked up the assassin strike power. As I am playing, I noticed that the icon gets a ready ring around it every now and then and I can't figure out the pattern.
At first I thought it was when I get body mastery up to 3, but the ring will go away and I haven't used the power or lost a mastery level. When it goes away and I do get mastery up to 3 again, the ring doesn't come back.. and I haven't used assassin strike between the two times I was at level 3.
A) Is there supposed to be a ready ring?
B) If there is, is it bugged?
Thanks.
You don't hit smiling monsters - Sister Flame