Hint: HONOURS FULL XANFINRO

I DISCOVERED IT.

He told you?

I was told to read Wikipedia!

Hey, I'm not blunt like... a blunt thing all the time!

Saddness

Warrior luck really really sucks. There's nothing in Lusternia more frustrating than having someone in critical head for a long time and not getting the behead proc. Sometimes I wish RP would let me roll on the choke/succumb train so I could just gibb people in a few seconds without any skill. Sometimes. Then I remember working for a kill is more fun, but damn it sucks when behead is being lame.

It's not behead being lame. It's you not getting wounds up much over base crit level, most likely. If you're just a couple hundred points over critical, rolling a behead is rough. If you're a couple thousand over, odds are pretty good you'll get it. Also: Higher dexterity helps. I imagine you expanded a lot and killed your dex.

Nah, it was luck, and only luck. Head was a good ways into crit, and dex is 16. I could have executed that person at will but lolbehead is a lot of fun to see

Which is why you left instead of just executing.



Also, the assess lines I was shown was mostly head at heavy.

Actually yes in part. I've been doing a lot of 1v1s to try out some new strategies. As I found out with Nienla, they don't work out sometimes!

How about these?

lolexecute
* Head has heavy wounds.
* Chest has critical wounds.
* Gut has critical wounds.
* Left arm has no wounds.
* Right arm has no wounds.
* Left leg has critical wounds.
* Right leg has no wounds.

lolbehead/execute
* Head has critical wounds.
* Chest has heavy wounds.
* Gut has heavy wounds.
* Left arm has no wounds.
* Right arm has no wounds.
* Left leg has critical wounds.
* Right leg has no wounds.

lolbehead
* Head has critical wounds.
* Chest has no wounds.
* Gut has no wounds.
* Left arm has no wounds.
* Right arm has no wounds.
* Left leg has medium wounds.
* Right leg has no wounds.

Happened with viynain too, lolbehead
* Head has critical wounds.
* Chest has medium wounds.
* Gut has no wounds.
* Left arm has no wounds.
* Right arm has no wounds.
* Left leg has critical wounds.
* Right leg has no wounds.

See, what you're missing is that it being at critical is not lolbehead. It doesn't tell you how deep into critical it is. And if he's at no wounds anywhere but head (and the leg when you knocked down), the head is likely not very deep into critical at all.

Xenthos is right there. With no modifiers, head wounds have to be double the critical threshold to even have a 50% chance of proccing behead.

If you see an execute opening, just take it.

Don't forget the whiff-chance, and the hit-the-chest chance.

And that.

Execute is sexier than plain ol' behead anyways.

You're into some kinky stuff.

Oh c'mon, everyone's beat their significant other senseless, smashed him/her with an axe, and offered the corpse at the nearest shrine. Isn't that part of the breaking up ritual?

I thought it was part of the engagement ritual.

And an expression of true friendship.

What you're missing is that I'm not missing anything. Repeated hack downs with head already at critical (meaning pushed 1k+ beyond crit) should result in a behead rather shortly. It didn't, hence my ranting about luck.

Indeed Xavius.. indeed. Mashing my execute sequence macro gets boring though

No, it doesn't... each apply pulls it down a long ways, any whiff and hit on chest slows you down. You need to know the exact numbers, from what I've seen of it you really didn't have good odds of pulling off a behead anywhere there. There was a small chance, but you need to have 2x the Critical level to have a 50% chance of a behead on a successful head hit (well, probably a bit less, but 16 dex is still not superb!)