Tactical Mastery

Work out how many uses your charges can pay for

Tactical Mastery saves one Activation Charge each time you use an Active Ability that normally costs at least two. Life Lock’s base cost of two charges becomes one with this discount; its 10% Health cost is separate. A three-charge action becomes two, and a one-charge action stays at one. It never makes a one-charge ability free.

Artery Strike, Broad Swing, Ravenous Flock, Soul Reaping and Mesmerise go from two charges to one. Blood Surge goes from three to two. Charge and Burning Blood already cost one, so their charge costs stay the same. Walking Fortress at rank 4 and Dirty Trick at rank 4 have separate conditional discounts; their one-charge minimum still applies when combining discounts.

For example, four full charges can pay for two uses of a two-charge ability before the discount, or four uses after it. That comparison counts charge spending only: the ability still needs to be off cooldown, and any Health or target requirement still applies. The discount is most useful when charge cost regularly stops you from using an otherwise available ability.

Sustained Focus changes maximum charge capacity, while Renewed Focus improves recovery. Neither is the same benefit as a cheaper use. If your loadout mostly uses one-charge actions, check those alternatives before spending your Swordmastery Ultimate choice on Tactical Mastery.

Unlocking the choice requires 35 points in ordinary Swordmastery perks. Points spent on Active Abilities do not fill that requirement. Keep another four points and two time segments for the Ultimate itself, then compare it with Sword Sage and Last Stand before buying.

Rank effects and learning costs

Costs are shown for each rank. Totals include this skill’s ranks only.

You can learn only one Ultimate Perk in the Swordmastery skill tree. Learning Tactical Mastery makes the other Ultimates in this tree unavailable.

More Swordmastery skills

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