Feint

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Lowers target's physical damage dealt by 10% and magic damage dealt by 5%.
Duration: 15s

— In-game description

Feint is an action unlocked at level 22. It is available for Melee DPS.

Related traits

The magic equivalent is Addle, with the percents for the damage types flipped. The Tank equivalent is Reprisal which is a point-blank AoE and has a lower cooldown. Most physical ranged DPS lack an enemy damage down ability (except for machinist's Dismantle), and instead have job-specific but functionally identical AoE abilities that reduce damage taken by themselves and allies.

Patch 7.0 (2024-07-02): Duration has been increased from 10 to 15 seconds upon learning the Enhanced Feint trait.
Patch 6.0 (2021-12-07): Changed "Lowers target's strength and dexterity by 10%" to "Lowers target's physical damage dealt by 10% and magic damage dealt by 5%".
Patch 5.0 (2019-07-02):
- Now acquired at level 22 (previously level 40).
- Recast time has been reduced from 120 to 90 seconds.
Patch 4.01 (2017-07-03): Fixed an issue wherein auto-attack did not engage.
Patch 4.0 (2017-06-20):
- Changed to a role action, accessible by all melee DPS classes.
- Damage potency has been removed.
- The additional effect "Slow +20%" has been replaced with "lowers target's strength and dexterity by 10%". The duration has not been changed.
- Is now an ability on a 120 second cooldown.
Patch 3.0 (2015-06-23): Can now be cross-classed by Machinist.
Patch 2.4 (2014-10-28): Can now be cross-classed by Rogue and Ninja.
Patch 2.0 (2013-08-27): Added as a cross-class skill originally acquired by level 2 lancer. Was originally a weaponskill with the description, "Delivers an attack with a potency of 120. Additional Effect: Slow +20%"