Dirty Fighting

Related topics: Combat, Skills, Finesse Weapons, Light Weapons, Heavy Weapons, Missile Weapons

Introduced:

Master of Arms

Dirty Fighting
Description	Your melee and missile attacks have a chance to weaken your opponent. High attacks can reduce healing effects on and attack skills of the opponent. Low attacks can reduce the defense skills of the opponent. Medium attacks can cause small amounts of bleeding damage.
Formula	(Strength + Coordination) / 3
Base Status	Untrained
Cost to Train	2
Cost to Specialize	2
Buffs	Dirty Fighting Mastery (Spell), Strength (Spell), Coordination (Spell)
Debuffs	Dirty Fighting Ineptitude (Spell), Weakness (Spell), Clumsiness (Spell)

Effects

If the skill is specialized, the debuffs and effects are more powerful as follows:

Specialized Dirty Fighting Effects

• [Attack High] Attack Skills debuffed -20 and all heal effects are reduced by 30 rating
• [Attack Medium] Bleed ticks for 20 damage
• [Attack Low] Defense Skills debuffed -20

Trained Dirty Fighting Effects

• [Attack High] Attack Skills debuffed -10 and all heal effects are reduced by 15 rating
• [Attack Medium] Bleed ticks for 10 damage
• [Attack Low] Defense Skills debuffed -10

Spell Stacking

• Spell Stacking and override information for spells that affect X can be found at:
  • Strength (Spell)
  • Weakness (Spell)
  • Coordination (Spell)
  • Clumsiness (Spell)
  • Dirty Fighting Mastery (Spell)
  • Dirty Fighting Ineptitude (Spell)

Notes

• Works for melee and missile attacks.
• Has a 25% chance to activate on any melee or missile attack.
  • This activation rate is reduced proportionally if Dirty Fighting is lower than your active weapon skill as determined by your equipped weapon.
• All activated effects last 20 seconds.
• Although a specific effect won’t stack with itself, you can stack all three effects on one opponent at the same time. This means that when the skill activates at one attack height you can move to another attack height to try to land an additional effect.

• Successfully landing a Dirty Fighting Effect is mentioned in chat. Additionally, the medium height effect results in "floating glyphs" around the target:

Dirty Fighting! <player> delivers a Traumatic Assault to Hea Apostate Shock Trooper!

Dirty Fighting! <player> delivers a Bleeding Assault to Hea Apostate Shock Trooper!

• Dirty Fighting's Heal debuff moved to High attack height during Wayward Prince patch.

Skills
Magic Skills	Arcane Lore, Creature Enchantment, Item Enchantment, Life Magic, Mana Conversion, Void Magic, War Magic
Combat Skills	Finesse Weapons, Heavy Weapons, Light Weapons, Missile Weapons, Two Handed Combat, Summoning
Secondary Combat Skills	Dual Wield, Dirty Fighting, Recklessness, Sneak Attack
Defense Skills	Magic Defense, Melee Defense, Missile Defense, Shield
Crafting Skills	Alchemy, Armor Tinkering, Cooking, Fletching, Item Tinkering, Lockpick, Magic Item Tinkering, Salvaging, Weapon Tinkering
Misc Skills	Assess Creature, Assess Person, Deception, Healing, Leadership, Loyalty, Jump, Run
Retired Skills	Appraise Armor, Appraise Item, Appraise Magic Item, Appraise Weapon, Axe, Bow, Crossbow, Dagger, Gearcraft, Mace, Spear, Staff, Sword, Thrown Weapons, Unarmed Combat