Create Opening

General Information

• An active ability found on the first slot of War Gloves. It is unlocked at mastery level 1.

Create Opening	Energy Cost	3	Attack the targeted enemy, dealing 210 physical damage. The spell can be recast again within 1.25s, additionally decreasing damage resistances of the target by 30 for 3s. Increases the Cooldown to 3s.
	Cast Time	0s
	Range	2m
	Cooldown	0s or 3s recast

Note: numerical values are based on gear with 1060 item power. Affected values are in bold.

The recast deals the same damage as the first cast.

Related Patch Notes

Patch Link	Date	Patch Name	Patch Notes
Version 19.010.1	13 December 2021	Lands Awakened Patch 1	Since War Gloves are an entirely new line that offers a lot of utility, outplay potential and combo setup, we wanted to make sure they don’t dominate the meta at launch and made sure that the kit has enough drawbacks. However it seems we were a bit overcautious, and while they seemed in a good place in test cases, they somewhat underperformed in various areas in the Albion live world. The following improvements have thus been implemented in Patch 1 to get War Gloves in a better place. Base Stats (all War Gloves): Now increase Max health by 50 (base value); for reference, this is the same amount of Max Health given by Swords and Axes War Glove Auto-Attacks - 3 Hit Attack Chains: Time factor of the third hit: 3 → 2 (this makes the third attack faster, but overall DPS stays the same) Canceling the third auto-attack is now possible earlier, to enable more responsive repositioning and ability usage between attacks Create Opening (all War Gloves): Cooldown when using the second hit: 4s → 3s Dragon Leap (all War Gloves): Cooldown: 8s → 7s Time window to activate Uppercut: 4s → 3s Removed the delay until the second activation can be used, allowing instant recast after the first hit Cross Step (all War Gloves): Buff Duration: 6s → 8s Shock Wave (all War Gloves): Range: 10m → 11m Triple Kick (all War Gloves): Damage vs Players per hit: 30 → 37 Backhand Strike (all War Gloves): The ability no longer requires an enemy target - instead, it can now be cast in a direction The Strike hits all enemies in a 6m range in the cast direction, knocking them back and applying the full knockback effect (and corresponding damage) to all targets hit Blazing Geyser (Brawler Gloves): Cooldown: 20s → 15s Falcon Smash (Battle Bracers): Inner Circle Damage: 242 → 264 Range: 12m → 15m Gravitational Collapse (Spiked Gauntlets): Damage vs Cloth Armor: 100 → 140 Damage vs Leather Armor: 200 → 240 Cooldown: 25s → 20s Purifying Combination (Fists of Avalon): First Attack Damage: 35 → 78 Third Attack Damage: 215 → 235 Aggressive Burst (Passive): Normal Attacks needed to Activate: 16 → 11 (for 2-hit auto-attack chain War Gloves) 3-hit auto-attack chain War Gloves are unchanged, because the 3-hit attack chain is now faster (see above) Rushdown (Passive on all War Gloves): Movement Speed Increase Duration: 1s → 2s