Posted August 02, 2022
I don't know if the devs even read this or they exclusively pay attention to steam, but this problem needs to be stated. Getting student of war to level 10 is a waste of class levels because (a) deadly blow doesn't work and (b) know your enemy doesn't give the full bonus. What I mean is that enemies that have inherent immunities to critical hits (e.g. various elementals) are still immune to crit even if struck by a level 10 student of war after said SOW successfully uses know your enemy. Yes, the ancient problem of know your enemy not being a swift action was fixed, but the bonus still caps at +2. Let's say you choose martial stance and hit an enemy with a weapon focused weapon. The attack roll in the log still says +2 when by level 7 it was supposed to increase to +3. Main problem is still the fact that deadly blow doesn't bypass crit immunities (which is the whole special ability of SOW).