Surrounding attacks/Vicious stabbing question

[Roh]

<p>Was looking at the predator tree, and it looks like the first 3 lines are tailored to enhance each respective class: Assassin (str)/Ranger (agil)/Swash (stam), but can be combined to enhance any 1 class. Specifically, there are 2 abilities I wanted clarification on. Vicious Stabbing and Surrounding Attacks, are these 2 abilities melee specific, or do they affect ranged attacks? Knowing that rangers use a combination of ranged/melee CA's, I am hoping for a reputable answer from a veteran ranger, thanks.</p>

[glowsintheda]

<p>Viscious stabbing does work for us, surrounding attacks does not (unless you use melee Auto).  You have a mistaken assumption somewhere because swash do not share the predator tree with rangers and assassins so our sta line has nothing to do with them</p>

[Ranja]

<p><cite>Roh wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Was looking at the predator tree, and it looks like the first 3 lines are tailored to enhance each respective class: Assassin (str)/Ranger (agil)/Swash (stam), but can be combined to enhance any 1 class. Specifically, there are 2 abilities I wanted clarification on. Vicious Stabbing and Surrounding Attacks, are these 2 abilities melee specific, or do they affect ranged attacks? Knowing that rangers use a combination of ranged/melee CA's, I am hoping for a reputable answer from a veteran ranger, thanks.</p></blockquote><p>A swash is not a predator. A swash is a rogue and shares their rogue tree with brigands.</p><p>Rangers/Assassins share the same predator tree.</p>

[Roh]

<p>Exactly what I was looking for, thanks for clearing that up for me.</p>