Chapter 13: The Role of Combo Points
The backstabbing skill still needs training, Xiao Yu has also refined the bone-picking thing, and both skills have been mastered, which can save a lot of time when trained together.
What's the difference between finishing moves like Bone Rip and Reverse Backstab, and combo moves like Backstab?
Xiao Yu thought for a moment, the introduction to the skill of Bone Picking was very limited, and there was no one who could teach him the techniques of Bone Picking skills, Xiao Yu could only slowly explore on his own.
From the introduction of the deboning skill, Xiao Yu can roughly understand that the principle of this deboning skill is to use a dagger to stab into the gap between the bones, and then fiercely tear open the flesh and bones, which can greatly reduce the mobility of monsters or enemies.
It seems that accuracy is the key to the deboning skill, and deboning attacks must find the weaknesses in the monster's armor as well as the soft spots on its flesh, which requires the person casting the skill to have extremely calm thinking and precise attacks, otherwise it is difficult to directly attack the vital parts.
After a moment of contemplation, Xiao Yu felt that he had to try it out. Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth.
Found another desert viper, Xiao Yu slowly crept past it, a sneak attack knocked it unconscious, his body spun sideways, using the momentum to stab into the desert viper's body with a backstab, dealing 69% of the backstab skill damage value and gaining a combo point. After the backstab, Xiao Yu's gaze swept over the desert viper's body and landed on its neck.
Strike the snake at seven inches, Xiao Yu thought of this ancient proverb, the dagger in his right hand rotated flexibly in his palm, then stabbed fiercely into the seven-inch position of the desert cobra.
With a "whoosh", it accurately hit the target, and the dagger pierced into the body of the desert cobra. Xiao Yu's dagger slashed downwards, but it collided with the snake's skeleton and didn't slash open another inch.
System: Bone Picking skill completion 60%, dealing 60% of skill damage.
The basic damage value of the Bone Picking skill is 20 points, and 60% is 12 points. After deducting the damage caused by the Desert Mamba's armor defense from Xiao Yu's own basic damage, the damage value is 10 points. Logically speaking, this Bone Picking skill should have dealt 22 points of damage, but the damage value has left Xiao Yu somewhat surprised. The Bone Picking attack dealt 33 points of damage, and this time there was no critical hit! It's unexpectedly high.
Still in the midst of battle, with no time to think carefully, when the Desert Viper turned around and wanted to attack Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu suddenly launched a backhand stab, striking and killing the Desert Viper.
Currently blood volume is 100%, no loss of blood at all! A perfect battle! Xiao Yu was very satisfied, the battle was unexpectedly smooth.
Picked up 11 copper coins that had fallen to the ground, as well as a thief's equipment.
Snake Skin Armor: Defense 12-17, Leather Armor.
It was a white suit of leather armor, better than what he had on. Xiao Yu changed into it.
Take a look at the system prompt just now, and finally successfully cast the deboning skill. Xiao Yu showed an excited smile. This deboning skill requires finding the weakness of the monster's armor, which needs to be supported by a certain amount of combat experience. The first time casting the deboning skill, Xiao Yu felt that it was not bad, but what made Xiao Yu somewhat puzzled was why the attack damage value of the deboning skill would be higher than its own skill damage value? This is a bit unreasonable.
And what's the meaning of these two terms, combo skills and finishing moves, are they...
"Is that the reason for the consecutive hits?" Xiao Yu's mind flashed with some thoughts, and he hastily wanted to find the Desert Viper to verify it.
The poor desert python became Xiao Yu's experimental subject, and after killing several desert pythons for repeated research, Xiao Yu finally confirmed the idea in his heart.
When Xiao Yu uses the Bone-Picking skill to attack the Desert Mantis alone, except for critical hits, the damage value caused by the Bone-Picking attack is fixed. For example, when the completion degree of the Bone-Picking skill is 60%, it can cause 22 points of damage to the Desert Mantis. However, if you use Backstab first and then use Bone-Picking, with a completion degree of 60%, it can cause 33 points of damage to the Desert Mantis.
That's the difference! In short, a finishing move is performed after a combo skill. For example, Backstab is a combo skill, and after using the Backstab skill, some combo points can be generated, and then use the finishing move Bone Rend, the attack damage of Bone Rend will increase greatly. The more combo points, the higher the damage value caused by releasing the finishing move.
Common sense like this, as long as you spend a few days searching on the forum, you can definitely find it. However, if you search now, it's probably hard to find. Many players who have figured out the characteristics of skills will not spread the information widely and instead try to distance themselves from ordinary players, because most players still know nothing about skill casting and so on.
Accidentally discovering the various characteristics of these skills means that Xiao Yu has already taken a step ahead of ordinary players, and he can use the discovered things to establish his own level advantage.
Players like Xiao Yu, who quickly grasped the basics of all thief skills, are extremely rare among thieves. Xiao Yu was also lucky to have stumbled upon it by chance.
With the support of these skills, the leveling speed of thieves is not slower than that of powerful mages, and even surpasses them. A full-skilled thief's damage output can even rival that of a mage, and at the same time, thieves do not need to consume a large amount of magic points when leveling up, which is the advantage of this profession.
