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Reason: Neck Break effect; Actual damage.

Vital Strike
Type:	Offensive Skill
Levels:	10, selectable
SP Cost:	12~20
Cast Delay	0.8/1 second
Target:	Enemy
Range:	5 cells
Status	Various
Weapon:	Spear
Status Icon
Prerequisites
(Knight) Cavalier Mastery Lv. 3, (Lord Knight) Traumatic Blow Lv. 3

Vital Strike (Alt: Joint Beat) is a Transcendent 2^nd class offensive skill available as Lord Knight.

Strikes a single target with a painful blow to inflict ranged physical damage. It has a chance of inflicting one of 6 status effects.

Level	Damage (ATK)	Base Chance of Effect	Cast Delay	SP Cost
1	60%	10%	0.8s	12
2	70%	15%
3	80%	20%		14
4	90%	25%
5	100%	30%		16
6	110%	35%	1.0s
7	120%	40%		18
8	130%	45%
9	140%	50%		20
10	150%	55%

Chance of Effect = Base_Chance_of_Effect − (Target_STR × 0.27)
Duration of Effect = [30 − (Target_AGI ÷ 10) − (Target_LUK ÷ 4)]s

Joint Status	Effect
Ankle Break	Halves Movement Speed
Knee Break	Decreases Movement Speed by 30% and ASPD by 10%
Wrist Break	Decreases ASPD by 25%
Shoulder Break	Halves soft defense
Waist Break	Decreases soft defense by 25% and attack by 25%
Neck Break	Doubles damage from this skill, leaves vulnerable to Critical Hits (?) and inflicts Bleeding.

• Has a mediocre damage. Below level 4, this skill has lower damage than a normal auto attack.
• There is no visual indication of success upon inflicting a status effect besides general observation.
• The statuses all stack.
• The duration of the statuses are reset each time a status is inflicted.

• Hunting Spear - Level 3; autocast on target when attacking

Knight • Lord Knight • Rune Knight • Dragon Knight
2nd Class Skills	Bowling Bash • Brandish Spear • Cavalier Mastery • Charge Attack • Counter Attack • One-Hand Quicken • Peco Peco Ride • Pierce • Spear Boomerang • Spear Mastery • Spear Stab • Twohand Quicken
Transcendent Skills	Aura Blade • Clashing Spiral • Frenzy • Parry • Relax • Spear Dynamo • Traumatic Blow • Vital Strike
3rd Class Skills	Death Bound • Dragon Breath • Dragon Howling • Dragon Training • Dragon Water Breath • Enchant Blade • Full Throttle • Hundred Spears • Ignition Break • Phantom Thrust • Rune Mastery • Sonic Wave • Wind Cutter
4th Class Skills	Charging Pierce • Dragonic Aura • Hack and Slasher • Madness Crusher • Servant Weapon • Servant Weapon - Demolition • Servant Weapon - Phantom • Servant Weapon - Sign • Storm Slash • Two-handed Defense • Vigor
Quests	Knight Job Change Guide • Knight Skill Quest • Rebirth Walkthrough • Rune Knight Job Change Guide • Fourth Class Job Change Quest Skip • Dragon Knight Job Change Guide
Weapons	One Handed Sword • Spear • Two Handed Sword