Golden Phoenix Strike

Disappeared skill history
The situation can be easily checked: this Skill should be enlisted between Golden Lotus Strike and Jungle Strike in the skill list, e.g. talking to a skill trainer somewhere in Cantha continent. Currently, no Assassin PG can train this skill.


 * 26 March 2006: A very number of gamers reported to have seen this skill during Faction Preview Event. A respectable number of them claim to have used this skill during Faction Preview Event, too.


 * With Factions on-line delivery, this skill disappeared from the list of trainable assassin skills.


 * A possible explanation of this behaviour is that this skill was promoted to Elite Skill after FPE's end, 26 March.


 * In the next period, gamers don't find a boss carrying Golden Phoenix Strike as Elite Skill. Instead, the well-farmed elite boss Xuekao, the Deceptive, reachable in Pongmey Valley, shows to use Golden Phoenix Strike, and when pointing the mouse over the skill during battle the description is that of a normal one. Also, Xuekao uses another Elite Skill called Way of the Empty Palm so he cannot carry two.


 * 4 May 2006: game update. Gholden Phoenix Strike still unavaiable.


 * 5 May 2006: Factions physical delivery.


 * 8 May 2006: game update. Gholden Phoenix Strike still unavaiable.


 * 9 May 2006: game update. Gholden Phoenix Strike still unavaiable.


 * 10 May 2006: game update. Gholden Phoenix Strike still unavaiable.


 * In the meanwhile, the community forum reach the consensus that Assassin's Promise isn't carried by elite bosses in Cantha continent. Assassin's Promise is another unavaiable skill. This fact will become part of the same story later.


 * 17 May 2006: game update. Gholden Phoenix Strike still unavaiable.


 * 19 May 2006: game update. Gholden Phoenix Strike still unavaiable.


 * 23 May 2006: game update. Gholden Phoenix Strike still unavaiable. The update claim the Assassin's Promise avaiable.


 * 23 May 2006, some time after game update: Gamers found that it was Xuekao's Elite Skill that was changed from Way of the Empty Palm to Assassin's Promise. And he still uses Golden Phoenix Strike as a normal-one, off-hand dagger attack.


 * Today's checks with some different skill trainers in the Cantha continent show that the skill has been added and is now available. This was noticed after downloading the latest build.


 * For all this time, Golden Phoenix Strike was avaiable in PvP. It is non-elite skill. The stats don't changed after FPE.

Acquisition
This skill is now available.

Usage Notes

 * This skill can be used without following a lead attack, making it similar to Palm Strike. However it can only be used whilst enchanted.

Related Skills

 * Black Lotus Strike
 * Falling Spider
 * Palm Strike