Forceful Backhand

Forceful Backhand
Release date	14 July 2014 (Update)
Members	No
Skill	Attack
Level	15
Type	Threshold
Adrenaline	−15%
Equipment	Any
Cooldown	15 seconds (25 ticks)
Description
Smack your target with the back of your hand, stunning them for 3.6 seconds and dealing 200% weapon damage.
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Forceful Backhand is a threshold ability. Similar to its basic counterpart, it stuns the target for 3 seconds whilst dealing 40-200% ability damage. Forceful Backhand works with the perk flanking, unlike it's counterpart, Stomp.

Against monsters that are not stun-immune, forceful backhand works well in conjunction with slice or punish. This is because slice's damage range is buffed to 80%-146% and punish deals an extra 94% damage when the target is stunned.

This ability shares its countdown timer with other threshold stuns (stomp, tight bindings, rout, deep impact and horror).

Hit timings

Forceful Backhand strikes the target 1 tick after being cast.

Update history

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• patch 5 January 2015 (Update):
  • Forceful Backhand now correctly deals the stated 200% weapon damage to stun-immune targets.