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11 Quick Strikes is a Tier 1 talent in the Fencer branch of the Windrose Talent System. It adds a flat damage increase to all one-handed melee weapons. There are no conditions and no ramp: the bonus applies to every swing from the moment it is learned.
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33 Summary
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55 PropertyValueBranchFencerTier1Max rank3Points per rank1Applies toOne-handed melee weapons
66 Effect by Rank
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88 RankOne-handed weapon damageRank 1+4%Rank 2+6%Rank 3+8%
99 What Counts as One-Handed
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1111 Quick Strikes scales the Fencer's light, fast melee weapons, led by the Saber and the Rapier. It does not affect two-handed weapons such as the Halberd or Greatswords, and it does not affect firearms: a Pistol is not treated as one-handed for this talent. The ranged equivalent is Firearm Training.
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1313 Community Meta
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1515 Treated as mandatory for every Fencer build. It is the flat-scaling backbone of the branch, and community consensus universally takes it to 3/3 early because the value is unconditional.
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1717 Pairs Well With
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1919 Deep Cuts, stacks the Slash damage subtype on top of the flat increase.The Flibustier Set armor, whose 4-piece bonus adds a further +15% one-handed damage.Surgical Cuts, a Fencer follow-up that benefits from the higher per-hit baseline.Deadly Finale, the chain finisher that multiplies an already-boosted swing.
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2121 Build Role
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2323 Quick Strikes is the flat-damage backbone that every one-handed build takes early. The +8% at rank 3 is unconditional, so there is no combat-condition math to track and no lost value in short engagements. It forms the base that conditional Fencer talents like Deadly Finale then multiply.
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2525 Math Example
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2727 A Rapier of a Thousand Cuts dealing 125 damage per hit rises to 135 with rank-3 Quick Strikes. Over a full 5-stack Deadly Finale chain the total grows by roughly 50 to 75 across the combo, depending on critical rolls.
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2929 Notes
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3131 Applies only to one-handed melee weapons. Firearms are not one-handed for this talent; Firearm Training is the ranged equivalent.Stacks additively with the Flibustier Set 4-piece bonus (+15% one-handed damage) for +23% total flat increase.Points can be reset at any time through a free respec if a build moves to two-handed or ranged weapons.
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3333 See Also
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3535 Fencer Talents, the one-handed branch overview.Talent System, the four-branch progression framework.Stats and Talents, stat allocation and respec.Melee Weapons, the weapon class this talent scales.