Talk:Balanced Stance

Okay, this might be a strange sort of question, but when they say it prevents the extra damage from a critical hit, does it mean that the critical hit doesn't happen? For instance, if an assassin is pounding on you, does he not regain the extra energy from Critical Strikes?

Which leads me to my next question. If it does indeed prevent critical hits, can this prevent Dark Apostasy from removing your enchantments? --Kit Engel 21:45, 17 August 2006 (CDT)
 * i'd guess that it means the critcal hit happens (i.e. refreshes Critical Defenses, but you don't suffer the extra Effdam adjustment, see damage. --Honorable Sarah [[image:Honorable_Icon.gif]] 00:10, 18 August 2006 (CDT)
 * Okay, I found a bit of time to test it in scrimmage with a guildmate. He brought Demonic Flesh, and had Balanced Stance. I attacked him with max dagger mastery and critical strikes, and had Dark Apostasy and Sharpen Daggers..


 * What we noticed was that while Balanced Stance was on, you would not regain energy from critical hits. You would not, in fact, get any effect of the critical. Sharpen Daggers never caused bleeding while Balanced Stance was on. However! The criticals did happen, in some weird way. Dark Apostasy would remove Demonic Flesh even though I would get neither the energy gain from critical strikes nor the bleeding from Sharpen Daggers.


 * It would be nice if someone could confirm these findings, since it's a bit confusing for me. >_< --Kit Engel 23:12, 18 August 2006 (CDT)


 * Just from playing normally in Aspenwood, I noticed that when I used Critical Strike, I did not get +3 energy when hitting Balanced Stance warriors. However, I did get +1 from Critical Eye on me, so somethings kinda screwy. --Gimmethegepgun 21:36, 15 November 2006 (CST)