Fully charged heavy attack

Powerburrito20 · July 2016

Ok, I feel dumb asking this as I've been playing long enough to know, but what is a " Fully charged heavy attack" as far as a Templer is concerned? Or any class for that matter? I play a temp and DK mostly.

imnotanother · July 2016

It is when you hold attack until your character completes a full animation.

Powerburrito20 · July 2016

So like holding a staff attack? Or is there clickable class skills that do the same?

SolarCat02 · July 2016

Powerburrito20 wrote: »

So like holding a staff attack? Or is there clickable class skills that do the same?

Staff or weapon attack, yes. It's not a skill.
Skills drain your resource pools, heavy attacks actually cause you to regain magicka (staves) or stamina (weapons).

GreenhaloX · July 2016

SolarCat02 wrote: »

Powerburrito20 wrote: »

So like holding a staff attack? Or is there clickable class skills that do the same?

Staff or weapon attack, yes. It's not a skill.
Skills drain your resource pools, heavy attacks actually cause you to regain magicka (staves) or stamina (weapons).

Ok, so a charged or heavy attack suppose to regain some stam back and so it says as well on the CP tree, and I think a post elsewhere also says it doesn't use any stam at all. I keep testing it out, and I just don't see it. I'm depleting stam by using the charged attack each time, but doesn't seem any stam being given back after a charge hit. Aside from the normal regen stam passive ability that occurs after the fight is over. I'm scratching my head here..

Reverb · July 2016

imnotanother wrote: »

It is when you hold attack until your character completes a full animation.

Exactly this. A light attack is hitting the attack button, which swings your weapon or shoots your staff. Holding down the attack button until the attack completes is a fully charged heavy attack. It can do pretty good damage, depending on your build, and also restores the resource pools used for class and weapon skills.

Powerburrito20 · July 2016

Reverb wrote: »

imnotanother wrote: »

It is when you hold attack until your character completes a full animation.

Exactly this. A light attack is hitting the attack button, which swings your weapon or shoots your staff. Holding down the attack button until the attack completes is a fully charged heavy attack. It can do pretty good damage, depending on your build, and also restores the resource pools used for class and weapon skills.

Thank you!

Nestor · July 2016

Note, there are also Medium Attacks, which occur if you cancel the animation too soon. They are effective in combat, but do not return resources.

For the most part, it's like a One-One-Thousand Two-One-Thousand for the time it takes to do a fully charged Heavy Attack. Not quite two seconds, but close enough.

Recremen · July 2016

imnotanother wrote: »

It is when you hold attack until your character completes a full animation.

This is not 100% true but it is within the spirit of the idea. A fully-charged heavy attack does not require the full animation to play, but it does require you to hold down the button. As @Nestor points out, there are also "Medium Attacks", where you did not hold down the mouse button long enough for a full Heavy Attack. You can still do animation canceling/weaving with a heavy attack, it can just be a little more tricky to get the timing right on it.

UltimaJoe777 · July 2016

Light Attack: Press the attack button to swing your weapon, shoot with your staff, or fire an arrow.

Medium Attack: Press and for a second or two hold the attack button and then release it.

Heavy Attack: Press and hold down the attack button until the weapon swings on its own, the staff fires on its own, or the arrow starts to glimmer. For the Bow, release the button once the arrow starts to glimmer. These attacks restore Magicka or Stamina depending on the weapon.

Note: These attacks cost no Magicka or Stamina at all for those wondering.