From CO-Wiki
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| Basic Info
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| Requirements
| Tier 1
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| Framework
|  Single Blade
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| Power Type
| Buff Self
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| Power Family
| Single Blade
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| Method
| Toggle
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| # of Ranks
| 3
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| # of Advantages
| 1
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| Hue Alteration
| Yes
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| Advanced Info
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| Cost
| 10% increased energy cost
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| Initial Cost
| 20
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| Activation Time
| 1 sec
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| Charge Time
| 2.5 sec
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| Lockdown
| No
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| Interruptible
| Movement, Damage
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| Effects
| Bleed Applies Focus
Maintains 1 stack of Focus
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| Form of the Swordsman
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| With a few moments of concentration and preparation, you may adopt an advanced martial posture.
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| Requires 1 power from Single Blade or 2 non-energy-building powers from any framework.
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| While you maintain this Form, you will gain an instance of Focus whenever you apply or rupture a Bleed.
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| The Focus buff increases your melee damage and grants you a small amount of energy. This energy gain scales with your Dexterity and you may gain energy this way at most once every 4 seconds. The damage buff scales with your Strength and Dexterity and you can gain up to eight stacks of this buff.
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| At Rank Two you have a 20% chance to gain an additional stack of Focus whenever you apply or rupture a Bleed. At Rank Three, this chance increases to 40%.
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| While not in combat, this power will grant and maintain stacks of Focus up to the rank of the power.
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| You must fully charge this power to activate it and taking any damage will interrupt your concentration, canceling the charge.
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| While this power is active, the energy cost of all your other powers is slightly increased.
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| While this power is active, your are too focused to become angry, and stacks of Enraged fall off of you if you ever have more than one stack.
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| You may only have ONE Form type power active at a time! Activating a Form power immediately ends any pre-existing Forms.
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Overview
Form of the Swordsman is a Tier 1 Power in the
Single Blade power set.
Ranks
Form of the Swordsman (Rank 2) - 2
Advantage Points + Maintains 2 stacks of Focus + 20% chance to gain an additional stack Form of the Swordsman (Rank 3) - 2
Advantage Points + Maintains 3 stacks of Focus + 40% chance to gain an additional stack Advantages
Cut Where It Counts (2
Advantage Points)
The cuts of a master of the Form of the Swordsman strike the most vital areas of their targets, resulting in wounds that are frighteningly difficult to heal.
+ Attacks against bleeding enemies inflict the Cut Where It Counts debuff, reducing the potency of all healing effects on the target.
See Also
Form of the Swordsman (Rank 2) - 2 Advantage Points
Cut Where It Counts (2 Advantage Points)