Read the Guard

Warrior skill · Command line · tier 3

Beta 0.7.2

Points out the enemy's flaw, and his own blow finds the spot.

It is only used in combat once it is placed on the hero's active bar, and its 14 s cooldown is before cooldown reduction.

Values by rank

Read the Guard scales with Crit Chance. Its value at each rank is 448 + 128 × rank:

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Value	576	704	832	960	1,088	1,216	1,344	1,472	1,600	1,728
Crit Chance	+5.76%	+7.04%	+8.32%	+9.6%	+10.88%	+12.16%	+13.44%	+14.72%	+16%	+17.28%

Crit Chance is a percentage stat, so the value is used as written (in basis points, shown here as a percentage), times the skill power.

Crit Chance = value × skill power
skill power = 1 + 1% per point in the other Command skills + 2% per rank of each skill that boosts it

How to unlock it

1
Rank 5 in War Cry Tier 1 of the Command line.
2
Hero level 12 at the earliest There is no level requirement, but a hero gets one skill point every 2 levels.
3
One skill point per rankUp to rank 10.

Rank 5 in Read the Guard opens Taunt.

Mastery and synergies

Line mastery: every point in the other Command skills makes Read the Guard 1% stronger, up to +40% with all of them at rank 10. Its own points do the same for the rest of the line.

Read the Guard has no synergies: no skill boosts it and it boosts no other skill.