.: Help for rhetoric

Rhetoric is a combat skill governing verbal and social
attacks. It determines your effectiveness with conviction
damage — attacks that target an opponent's will to fight
rather than their body.

Primary Stat: Charisma

Progression:

  Rhetoric progresses through use, like all skills. Each
  time you use a rhetoric-based ability (such as
  taunt), there is a chance your skill rank
  increases. Higher ranks improve both your hit chance
  and damage output.

Effects of Rank:

  - Higher rhetoric sharply increases your conviction damage —
    a master's words cut several times deeper than a novice's
  - Adds to your hit check when attacking with taunt
  - Adds to your defense when targeted by taunt

Profession: Orator (Rhetoric + Bartering)

Abilities:

  taunt  — Verbal assault that deals conviction damage
             and forces the target to attack you
  warcry — Battle cry that boosts physical damage for
             all allies in the room
  rally  — Rallying shout that improves dodge, parry,
             and block for all allies in the room

All three share the special move cooldown.

See Also:

  help taunt, help warcry, help rally,
  help skills, help combat