Martial Blitz (3.5e Maneuver)
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| Iron Heart, Organic Repast, Essential Cut (Strike, Boost) [X-Discipline] | |
| Level: | 7 |
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| Prerequisite: | Three Iron Heart, Organic Repast, or Essential Cut maneuvers |
| Initiation Action: | 1 full-round action |
| Range: | Melee attack |
| Target: | As full attack (see text) |
| Duration: | Instantaneous and 1 round; see text |
As part of this maneuver, make a full attack and expend another maneuver. Instead of the normal number of attacks you would get for your full attack via your base attack bonus, you get one attack per level of the expended maneuver. (For example, expending a level 1 maneuver would entitle you to only one attack; expending a level 5 maneuver would entitle you to 5 attacks; expending a level 7 maneuver would entitle you to 7 attacks... you should get the idea.) These attacks are all made at your highest attack bonus. You still get additional attacks from sources other than your base attack bonus (such as haste) as normal. All options that would be available to you during a full attack (namely, switching targets or using special combat options like tripping and disarming) are available to you during this maneuver.
In addition, you receive 1 extra attack of opportunity for this round for every level of the expended maneuver (a level 1 maneuver grants 1 extra attack of opportunity, a level 3 maneuver grants 3 extra attacks of opportunity, and so on and so forth).
If you are xenotheric, you may take a point of bio-energy drain to make two attacks and gain two attacks of opportunity per level of the maneuver expended to fuel martial blitz.
If you have at least one level in the Carnage Zealot class and know at least two other Essential Cut maneuvers, you may invest essentia into this maneuver. You make one additional attack and gain one additional attack of opportunity for each point of essentia invested into this maneuver (or two if you took a point of bio-energy drain). After martial blitz is resolved, the invested essentia is returned to your essentia pool. (If you're a Carnage Zealot and don't have an essentia pool, something is very, very wrong with your character. Seriously, how the hell did you do that?!?)
As a final note, when you initiate this maneuver, both martial blitz and one other maneuver you have readied (and granted, if a crusader) are expended. The benefit of martial blitz is entirely dependent on the level of the maneuver expended alongside it. Martial blitz cannot be initiated if it is your only available maneuver, even if you have essentia available to invest in it. You may only expend one other maneuver when you initiate martial blitz. The second maneuver is not itself considered to have been initiated, so none of its usual effects apply. You cannot expend a stance, so you cannot use a stance alongside martial blitz. You can use martial blitz while already in a stance; you just can't enter a stance as part of the same action you use to initiate martial blitz. See synostodweomer[1] and arcane aura for more information.
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| Article Balance | High + |
| Author | Luigifan18 + |
| Descriptor | X-Discipline + |
| Discipline | Iron Heart +, Organic Repast + and Essential Cut + |
| Identifier | 3.5e Maneuver + |
| Level | 7 + |
| Rating | Unrated + |
| Summary | Expend another maneuver, and make one attack per level of the expended maneuver. + |
| Title | Martial Blitz + |
| Type | Strike, Boost + |
