In my opinion, most important section of this guide, class requires you to properly flow from skill-to-skill for it to feel nice and smooth, i highly recommend practicing in BA to get it down.

• Prime: Spinning Slash (S+RMB)

  • Flows from Charging thrust (W+F)

  • Flows from Solar Flare (W+C)

  • Flows from Frenzied Dash (Shift + Q)

  • Flows from Quick Counter and cancels it (S + LMB)

  • Has a faster animation when used from Prime: Evasion (A/D + LMB)

• Prime: Earth Tremor (Shift + F)

  • Flows from Ground Smash (Shift + F)

  • Holding Shift + F makes you cast Earth Tremor at the same spot as Ground Smash

  • Holding F makes you jump in the direction you're looking in

  • Flows from Pulverize (S+C)

  • Flows from Frenzied Dash (Shift+Q)

  • Flows from Quick Counter (S+LMB)

  • Can be used when Ground Smash is on CD

• Quick Counter (S+LMB)

  • Flows from Sideways cut but only if you moving right (D+RMB)

  • Flows from Shield Charge (W+RMB)

  • Flows from Severing Thrust (Shift+LMB)

  • Flows to Scars of Dusk (C)

  • Flows from Block (Hold S prior to input)

  • Flows to Earth Tremor (Leap version, use only F, if you use Shift+F, it will trigger Ground Smash if off-CD)

• Heavy Strike (LMB + RMB)

  • Flows to Counter (S + LMB)

  • Flows to Scars of Dusk on its 3nd hit (C)

  • Flows to Spinning Slash (S + RMB)

  • Flows from Shield Strike (RMB)

  • Flows from Pulverize (S + C)

  • Flows to Severing Thrust (Shift + LMB)

• Solar Flare (W + C) 

  • Flows to Chopping Kick (S + F)

  • Flows to Scars of Dusk ( C)

  • Flows to Shield Strike 2nd hit (RMB)

  • Flows to Spin Slash (S+RMB)

  • Succession Warrior: Solar Flare flows

Succession Warrior: Solar Flare flows

Spinning Slash: Lingering Crit

The key to maximizing DPS for succession warriors is to make use of Lingering Crit, Lingering Crit is a unique succession warrior mechanic that allows your skills to have 100% Crit rate. Lingering crit can be achieved by casting Spinning Slash which gives you a 3 second window to cast our main dps skills - Heavy Strike and Ground Slash or in group situations, Pulverize, giving all of the skills 100% crit rate. Remember that Jump Slash refreshes the duration of the lingering crit buff.

Here are some examples on how lingering crit can be used to maximize your DPS output in PvE scenarios:

Lingering Crit combos:

• Spinning Slash > Jump Slash > Ground Slash > Heavy Strike 3x - Counter > Heavy Strike 3x

• Solar Flare > Jump Slash > Ground slash > Heavy Strike 3x - Counter - Heavy Strike 3x

Lingering Crit combos with Z-buff and/or Shai buff:

• Spinning Slash > Jump Slash > Ground Slash > Heavy strike 3x - Counter - Heavy strike 3x 

• Solar Flare > Jump Slash > Heavy strike 3x - Counter - Heavy strike 3x - Counter > Heavy Strike 3x

Counter and Shield Strike can be used interchangably for flowing from Heavy Strike into Heavy Strike, depending on what you prefer, although after patch on March 13th 2025, Counter is the superior option after getting it's damage buffed.

Heavy strike, Ground Slash, Pulverize and Shield Strike are the only skills that do not have 100% crit rate which is why it is important to make use of lingering crit to maximize damage, after addon and z-buff changes however, using lingering crit on pulverize is inconsequential, as now you can reach 100% crit rate on the skill without utilising this tech (50% skill base crit, 18% crit from 5 stat points, 30% from addon, 30% from z-buff = 128% crit rate with z-buff = 98% crit rate without z-buff)

Pseudo-canceling

This section might be confusing to some, but to summarize it, couple skills on warrior leave you in a "uncancelable" hang-time at the end of animation after skill is finished casting, and that applies to many succession skills. You cannot however, do animations cancels in middle of animation, hence the name "pseudo-canceling". The main skill used for "pseudo-canceling" is Prime: Evasion(also known as sidestep), but Chopping kick, Shield charge and Forward Slash can be utilised in such manner as such as well.

Skills that call for always being "pseudo-canceled":
-Solar Flare (I recommend watching this video: Solar Flare flows)
-Ground Smash (Could leave you open to being grabbed)
-Shield Strike (FG, therefore could leave you open to CC)

Note: it's worth to keep in mind that some skills cancel better with Prime: Evasion, while others cancel better with other options, but at the end of the day, you should pick whichever skill best suits the situation and based on what skill isn't on cooldown to posture yourself to best suit the scenario.

Counter - S+LMB (Space) - CC Skill

Counter is unique skill, in a way where you can cast it 2 ways, one version of the skill will be a horizontal slash around yourself to produce an AoE KD, while the other will be a slash in front of you, that will release an energy wave that will float CC your enemies.

• Spin Counter (Knockdown)  S + LMB + Space - KD version of the skill, one of 2 KD's in our kit, input is replaced by just Space when used as flow after these skills:
  Severing Thrust
  Heavy Strike (3rd Strike)
  Chopping Kick
  Pulverize
  Prime: Evasion
  Shield Charge
  Sideways Cut
  Guard (Q-Block)
  Shield Tide

• Energy Counter (Float) S + LMB - Float version of the skill,  our main ranged CC catch, personally my favorite skill in the whole kit, can be casted as Quick Counter to cast instantly when used as flow after these skills:
  Severing Thrust
  Heavy Strike (3rd Strike)
  Chopping Kick
  Pulverize
  Prime: Evasion
  Shield Charge
  Sideways Cut (but only if moving right)
  Guard (Q-Block)

Counter gives a 6% accuracy buff for 10 seconds upon use.

Shield Strike - RMB after certain skills - The 3rd hit is a Knockdown

Shield Strike fixes our over reliance on Counter to re-cc opponents who are using adamantines, Shield Strike has a KD which adds another instance to trigger KD right after Counter

I recommend you learn how to play with it unlocked, the sooner the better.

List of all skills that proc 3rd hit of Shield Strike:

Ground Slash, Spinning Slash, Jump Slash, Counter (both energy and spin) , Pulverize, after the first hit of Scars of Dusk, Chopping Kick

List of all skills that proc 2nd hit of Shield Strike:

Sideways Cut (only going Right), Solar Flare, Forward Slash, Kick (both 1st kick of F and 1st kick of A+F)

Skill used mostly after Ground Slash to go into Stiff > KD

To secure a higher chance of KD you can use it after counter and immediately use evasion to cancel the animation.

Note: The end animation can only be canceled by Prime: Evasion and to some extent Severing Thrust and Heavy Strike.

Chopping Kick - S + F - Vital pseudo-cancel

Used to be a bound CC, useful for punishing blockjumps and sorceress when she was leaving nightmare to pop out behind us out of Q-block, nowadays it's main use is triggering flows, chaining movement, small repositioning and pseudo-canceling, i highly advice keeping track of this skill's cooldown at all times.