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Class record

Transcendent Lightning Style

Striker

Tier
3
Difficulty
2 / 5
Main role
Striker
Secondary role
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Rules reference

Class mechanics

Entry requirements and the complete level-by-level advancement path.

Entry

Requirements

Cultivator or Martial Artist mastered, any tier 2 mastered.

Advancement

Progression

  1. UnlockKey ability
    Rolling Thunder
  2. Level 2Ability 1
    Heavenly Lightning Stance
  3. Level 3Skills
    You gain +5 skill points to spend in Athletics, Perception, Intimidation, Survival or Common Knowledge. You can exchange any skill point for 2 expertise points, but must spend them in these skills.
  4. Level 4Ability 2
    Lightning Lariat
  5. Level 5Heart
    You gain +1 to Fitness or Awareness.
  6. Level 6Ability 3
    Living Lightning
  7. Level 7Soul
    You gain +1 to Focus, Power or Agility.
  8. Level 8Ultimate ability
    Secret Art: Lightning Release

Identity & lore

Class overview

Natsuki blinked in confusion at her surroundings, the wind from the mountains tugging at her robes and hair. Lightning danced around her limbs and she was tense, like a battle was upon her. Bells and gongs rang behind her from a village, all indicating some sort of attack. Which would explain why she was there, ready to defend them.

But she didn’t remember anything that would have warranted her assuming the Stance of Heavenly Lightning. Had she been training? …No, that wasn’t wise if she was there to defend the village. Like a fog slowly lifting, she remembered being dispatched from the temple to investigate missing villagers nearby and…even a completely wiped out hamlet.

In a flash, her mind cleared. A huge face loomed in front of her, lipless mouth spread in a permanent, horrific grin. Empty eye sockets bore down on her as it opened its mouth.

Akuma, her mind identified. Too large to be a bakemono, too little devastation to be a kaiju. A kaibutsu, then. And a tricky one at that.

She traced the thin, tentacle-like neck back to the main body, a pulsing globule of flesh as large as a house. Other heads grinned at her from their own serpentine necks. They were quiet, no longer singing, as if they wanted to enjoy her terror as she was devoured. Like it had probably picked off villagers one by one, using its song to make everyone forget until it struck again.

But the akuma had made a grave mistake. Its weapon was song and sound. But her’s…her’s was what thunder chased and could never catch.

The air cracked and the akuma howled in agony as she came to a stop on the other side of it, lighting glittering across her skin and snapping at the wind.

“Lightning Release,” she said, the mantra unnecessary but it felt appropriate. “Living Lightning.”

All she had to do was kill the akuma before it could sing again. Simple as that. Natsuki clenched her fists and thunder boomed again, desperately giving chase to her lightning.

Tactical guidance

Playing Transcendent Lightning Style

The Transcendent Lightning Style is a martial arts based class focused on speed. Like most martial arts based classes, it expects you to lean heavily into that playstyle.

The Heavenly Lightning Stance is their specific stance and is essentially required to use their other two active abilities. Because it goes away when you use a non-melee attack, it's not suited for people that like to use ranged attacks. Its main use is to allow you to move freely across the battlefield, but if you're already engaged in a melee fight you can also use the free sidestep movement to move away safely.

Lightning Lariat is your opening attack move of choice, letting you move and attack in the same action. Stance into Lariat gets you in the fight at basically no mana cost, potentially with a trick attack and with extra damage if you moved far enough for your key ability to activate.

Living Lightning combo's well with Lightning Lariat but essentially requires you to be in your lightning stance to be usable. It requires you to move in a straight line, similar to horse movement. Because Lightning Lariat already forces you to move like that, you can use living lightning while use that. You can also move through the target you're hitting with the lariat to hit them with the living lightning as well.

Your secret art: Lightning Release is best used immediately at the start of the fight unless you have a better secret art available. It gives you buffs that last for the entire encounter and even activates your lightning stance at the same time.

As a last note, this style naturally combo's well with the Sky Talon Style due to the lightning stance giving you the benefits of the wind stance as well.

Transcendent Lightning Style

Class features

Abilities unlocked

Complete rules for every ability granted by Transcendent Lightning Style.

Key ability

Rolling Thunder

Class feature

Benefit 1

After moving at least 40ft in a turn, your next unarmed strike that turn gains a +2 Transcendent Lightning bonus to accuracy and damage.

0 AP1 MP
Range
Self
Keywords
Stance

You enter the Heavenly Lightning Stance, a stance that lets you move with the unpredictability of the heavens. For your first movement of your turn, you may pass through enemies and your movement becomes a Sidestep.

If you have mastered Sky Talon Style, entering this stance also counts as your Wind Stance.

This stance lasts until you enter a different stance or make an attack with anything other than a melee attack or an ability with the Unarmed Strike keyword.

1 RP
Range
Self

You turn into a spark of lightning as you move. For this movement action, you deal Light Lightning damage to all creatures you pass through.

Requirements

Not mounted and must move entirely in a straight line.

0 AP3 MP
Range
Self

You infuse yourself with Lightning and gain Lightning Release until the end of the encounter, allowing you to deal Lightning damage with your unarmed attacks and immediately enter the Heavenly Lightning Stance. While this lasts, you also gain the following benefits: 

  • Your movement speed is doubled.
  • You can make an additional attack when you use Double Punch. 
  • When making an unarmed attack, your critical threshold is lowered by 1 (19-20 base). Whenever you hit with a critical hit with an unarmed attack that deals Lightning damage, the attack arcs to a different enemy within 20ft of the original target. This attack uses the same attack roll and damage, but cannot arc again.

If you ever leave the Lightning Stance, you lose the benefit of this.