Nope. Placate cannot cancel out offensive toggles. It's a bug but won't be fixed. Too complicated. It's "supposed" to cancel it out though. I've PMed A. Hawk about this a while back.
However, you can easily use an attack after placate right before the toggles interrupt you. You just can't set up a critical Assassin Strike.
What's left is to normalize all Assassin Strikes and improve Stalker's old sets (Claw, MA and EM)! You don't need to bring back the missing PbAoE attack. You just need to make the existing ones better! For example, make Slice a WIDER and LONGER cone.
I keep placate ready incase I have a ranged attacker that is focused on me, just to get him off my back. I dont use placate on targets already in melee.
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The real answer to the question is "yes you can" use Placate with Dark Armor's and Energy Aura's offensive toggles ... with the understanding that you're going to need to build either a macro or a keybind which will automagically Toggle Off your offensive toggles for you as part of the bind which makes use of Placate on your $Target. This is relatively simple to program (if you know what you're doing), but also a "less than ideal" solution. It is, however, better than nothing.
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I'm debating on adding Placate to a Dark Armor build and was wondering if the OG and CoF toggles would cancel its effect?
(Same for Energy Aura and its Disrupt toggle.)
Thanks in advance.
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