Talk:Rending Strikes

How many stacks of vulnerability does this give? That's rather crucial to know, 1% vuln is pretty useless.

It's only 1 stack, but the duration is rather long, so it's not hard to build them up unless you're using this with a hammer or something. I'm using it with dual axes and very high precision, my crit chance is over 60%, and with Whirling Axe alone I can usually get 5+ stacks on a foe. —Dr Ishmael 05:25, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

So I discovered last night myself as I went to test it. Somebody edited the entry to say it has a duration of 7 secs, but it seemed to me to be more like 9, or at least 8. But I dismissed the trait as being almost useless, I was testing it using a rifle (w/o any fury), and I don't think I ever saw it go over 2 stacks. I suppose dual wielding or really fast weapons would make this considerably stronger, as your dual axe test suggests. For my current weapons/build it's not much good. I've been struggling to find a useful DPS replacement for Deep Strike in that first Arms box. It seems like Deep Cuts may be the best due to the 33% bleed on crit, even though my typical weapon combo (GS/LB) has 0 bleeds! - Perkus 02:20, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Does it stack with Sigil of Frailty? Have anybody tested it? On dual axes it could go even to 9 then, without skills.

I don't see why it wouldn't. Although I'm pretty sure it's two separate chances and the sigil of frailty is said to have an internal cd of 2secs. I wouldn't rely on this trait to do much, probably use it if nothing else looks particularly useful.98.225.43.150 22:10, 4 June 2013 (UTC)