Surprise Attack
Cost: 2295 StaminaTarget: Enemy
Maximum range: 7 meters
Effect
Slash an enemy, dealing 2399 Physical Damage and applying the Sundered status effect. If you strike an enemy from their flank you set them Off Balance. This attack will also be guaranteed to be a Critical Strike, up to once every 3 seconds.
New effect
Converts to a Stamina ability and deals Physical Damage. Always applies the Sundered status effect and deals guaranteed critical damage when flanking an enemy.
Name: Surprise Attack
Found in: Nightblade > Shadow
Unlocks at: Shadow Rank 1 and Veiled Strike Rank IV
This skill is part of the scribing system.
Surprise Attack is a skill in the Shadow skill line under the Nightblade category in ESO (the Elder Scrolls Online).
Status effects Champion Points that buff Surprise Attack
Found in: Nightblade > Shadow
Unlocks at: Shadow Rank 1 and Veiled Strike Rank IV
This skill is part of the scribing system.
Surprise Attack is a skill in the Shadow skill line under the Nightblade category in ESO (the Elder Scrolls Online).
Status effects Champion Points that buff Surprise Attack
- Backstabber (only while slotted)
- Deadly Aim (only while slotted)
- Fighting Finesse (only while slotted)
- Master-at-Arms (only while slotted)
- Mighty
- Piercing
- Precision
- Untamed Aggression (only while slotted)
- Wrathful Strikes (only while slotted)
Unmorphed version
Veiled Strike
Other morph
Concealed Weapon
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