Can someone please explain to me what "Repeating Strike is?"

[Fenix Aurion]

Everyone is talking about how good repeating strike is. Unfortunetely, I wasn't able to try it out last weekend. Can someone explain to me why everyone says its so strong? All it does is +1-17 damage.

[Akisame Kiyoraba]

Repeating strike has no recast time, is considered and offhand attack, and has an offhand attack as a requirement, with a low mana cost. Meaning? Providing you have some form of energy management, once you use an offhand attack once, you can spam repeating strike as long as you have energy. Its basically about the equivalent of Quickshot for bow, minus the elite status, plus extra damage. As a bonus, you get to breakdance and do the windmill as you pummel people with it.

[Necromas]

A common repeating strike strategy is to do a combo that ends with an off hand attack, and then spam repeating strike until the enemy is dead or you run out of mana.

Another tactic is to use repeating strike halfway through your combo and keep spamming it until your enemy is weak enough for the rest of your combo to finish them off, but if they break the repeating strike combo they also prevent you from finishing your main combo.

[Edit] Let it be noted though that in the second situation, if they dodge repeating strike, your last attack was still an off hand attack since it was repeating strike too, so you can still use your next skill in the combo, which follows an off hand attack.

Example of the build I used:

-Lead attack
-Off hand attack, follows lead attack
-Repeating strike, off hand attack, follows off hand attack
-Double Strike, follows off hand attack
-Off hand attack, follows double strike

If they break the combo at repeating strike, no matter what, the attack before repeating strike was an off hand attack, so you can still use your off hand attack follower. (note, if repeating strike fails to hit, it has a long recharge)

[Toner]

I used the elite 'Way of the Empty Palm' before spamming Repeating Strike....
Result: Spamming +17 dmg strikes for 0 energy on those fleshy targets in PvP :tongue:
Uses up a elite slot... but it was just a random build i though worked well :-)

[Azgalon]

Repeating Strike is a skill with lots of potential in many combos!

[nothing special]

Repeating Strike is a skill with lots of potential in many combos!

Way of the empty palm would work great with this, but if you want another elite skill (like temple strike :smiley: ) imagine this:

R/A (for those of us who already have a ranger)

Expertise >=13 ( use whatever runes)
Dagger Mastery 12
Whatever

+Zealous Weapon = 1e repeating strikes ftw!

[flamingmarmo]

I used zealous weapon+critical eye, for energy management with a high critical strike I gained 1-4 energy every repeating strike not infinate but goes a long way to providing energy.

[Kjentei]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d159/Vashekos/RepeatingStrike.jpg
Here's the description:
The recharge is not shown because there is none! (similar to Flare [Elementalist-Fire] and Stone Daggers [Elementalist-Earth])

[MaximumSquid]

As a bonus, you get to breakdance and do the windmill as you pummel people with it. :)

I talked to a few people that were running repeating strike over the Expansion weekend. One guy recommended being a R/A with high expertise. When you drop the cost of Repeating strike down to 2 energy (14 expertise) it becomes relentless.

I don't have a build to post, but i'm sure you can make something really nasty since you'll have an engine like expertise going for yourself.

[Lattyho]

Where do you get repeating strikes?

[hahnsoo]

You buy it from a skill merchant. And it's not all that great. Your DPS actually suffers because you never get a double hit in while doing your Repeating Strikes, and there are better, more effective combinations out there. If there was some sort of added effect that was applied with those offhand attacks, then it might be useful (anything... cripple, disrupt, bleed, etc.).

[Confusion of Minds]

from a skill trainer as it isnt an elite, if you have unlocked it from pvp you can buy it as soon as possible.

beat me to it. Well you could always use sharpen daggers with it if you want an effect.

[satanicblahster]

Everyone is talking about how good repeating strike is. Unfortunetely, I wasn't able to try it out last weekend. Can someone explain to me why everyone says its so strong? All it does is +1-17 damage.


im not about to read what everyone wrote.... but a good combo u can do with it is to pump up way of the empty palm (offhand and duals cost no energy) and then spam repeating strike....for the time being it will have no energy cost, so when u see the way of the empty palm flickering in the top left corner of ur screen do a dual attack and end ur long repeating strike combo and repeat it again

[Akisame Kiyoraba]

The problem is that Repeating Strike is a very difficult skill to balance. Back during PvP weekend and the factions preview event, it was twice as strong, i believe it had +2 damage/attribute, scaling to about +34 damage per hit at 13 Dagger Mastery. It was easily the strongest unconditional offhand, with no drawbacks. It disables by missing? So does every other assassin build. But, now that its damage is the same as wild-strike or fox fang, its just another offhand attack. Its repeating capabilities mean little, when a full chain will do significantly higher damage. Just the dual attack alone will strike for 80+ damage, just using baselines for damage. Assassins aren't exactly well known, for their consistency and long term duration in close combat either.

[satanicblahster]

The problem is that Repeating Strike is a very difficult skill to balance. Back during PvP weekend and the factions preview event, it was twice as strong, i believe it had +2 damage/attribute, scaling to about +34 damage per hit at 13 Dagger Mastery. It was easily the strongest unconditional offhand, with no drawbacks. It disables by missing? So does every other assassin build. But, now that its damage is the same as wild-strike or fox fang, its just another offhand attack. Its repeating capabilities mean little, when a full chain will do significantly higher damage. Just the dual attack alone will strike for 80+ damage, just using baselines for damage. Assassins aren't exactly well known, for their consistency and long term duration in close combat either.

yeha thats true...i think the only time i used this skill is when i was a a/r critical barrager and i had to change to just assassin for the second try against shinro

[Longasc]

The point of Repeating Strike is that you can dish out good damage while waiting for your dual and possibly even lead attacks to recharge.

[Guildwars master]

you can learn them from skill trainers, and here is a good combo use reapeating strike with a spell that makes u unable to miss then u can just keep beating him down without haveing to w8 if u miss, and u can use something that makes u get critical strikes and just keep beating them down

[Guildwars master]

something i found out is that there r no off hand attack that have to follow a dual that is in critical strikes or dagger mastery or shadow arts hmmmm.....