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How does my identity work?

Similar to Berserker, Slayer has a Fury Meter that is filled by hitting the enemy with any one of her attacks, and can be activated once full to enter Burst Mode.

During Burst Mode your Fury Meter depletes with every second. By hitting the boss with any skill, auto attacks or lingering abilities like Wild Stomp you gain Fury meter back. At the same time you accumulate Fatigue stacks every 3 seconds. Each Fatigue stack increases Fury Meter consumption by 10%. 


This means eventually when you have accumulated enough Fatigue you will run out of your Burst Mode. 
This is not avoidable and you enter the state of Exhaustion.
You cant gain any Fury meter and your Burst Mode is locked until Exhaustion wears off.

Cancelling Burst Mode or running out of Fury meter will always set Exhaustion to 10 seconds, if your Fatigue was at 20 or fewer stacks. The Exhaustion time is reduced by 1 second for each stack above 20. 
Burst Mode can be canceled (default Keybind X) after unlocking the 4th Enlightment Node Intensifying Fury.
It is recommended to turn off Burst Mode before a long cutscene or other periods of downtime specific to a Raid encounter.

While in Burst Mode, you are provided with the following effects:

• 30% Crit Rate increase and 20% Attack Speed + Movement Speed
• 51% Crit Damage and 3% Damage per Burst Enhancement Stack up to 30% (Intensifying Fury)
  Your current Burst Enhancement stacks will be indicated both as a UI element next to your character, as well as on your buff bar with a number above it, indicating the number of stacks.

You can build stacks by attacking the boss with any ability, auto attacks, or lingering abilities.
The stacks have a global cooldown. You cant build more than 1 stack per second. 
Once you reach 10 stacks of Burst Enhancement it will stay active until you exit Burst Mode.
Everytime you enter Burst Mode you will need to stack Burst Enhancement again.

FAQ

How does Supersonic Breakthrough work?

Your attack speed and movement speed must be 140%. After you reach 140% on both, 30% of the excess beyond that point is converted to evolution damage, to a max of 24%.
This means you need a total of 26.66% excess between attack speed and movement speed.
Examples of this would be:
153.33% both Attack Speed and Movement Speed (13.33%+13.33%)
160.33% Movement Speed and 146.33% Attack Speed (20.33%+6.33%)
These are the minimum values you need to reach to cap out Supersonic.

Feast is always recommended to use and mandatory if you play the Supersonic Breakthrough Build.
General Minimum Swiftness Requirements to cap Supersonic (excluding bracelet AS/MS roll):
1330 Swift (+9% Yearning, 5% Feast, 3% AS or MS Wine)
1417 Swift (+9% Yearning, 5% Feast, No Wine)
1708 Swift (+9% Yearning, No Feast/Wine)

Should I use skills when in a state of Exhaustion?

Even though many skills have tripods that require Burst Mode to provide a damage increase, it is still better to cast most skills while in a state of Exhaustion rather than not casting at all. The exception to this is Volcanic Eruption; it should not be cast outside of Burst Mode due to its extremely poor damage when in Exhaustion. Brutal Impact can still deal significant damage outside of Burst Mode. A good rule of thumb is if Exhaustion is over half of Brutal Impact’s cooldown, then cast it outside of Burst Mode; if it is less than half of Brutal’s cooldown, then hold Brutal until you re-enter Burst Mode. The same can be generalized for the rest of your skills; prioritize using skills with low cooldowns and lower dependency on Burst Mode while in Exhaustion.

If you struggle with mana go combat instinct

Reckless Attack at rank 2 (current max level with full Enlightenment points) provides .8% more damage than Combat Instinct while costing 20% more mana. 

If you can mitigate the increased mana costs, it becomes worth running, however that will often come at the cost of using mana food, MP Efficiency Increase, or Illicit Spell, which each come with various downsides.  If you don’t care about chasing perfect ceiling damage, save yourself the trouble and just run Combat Instinct.

While mana consumption rate will depend on a variety of factors including your support’s uptime, rune setup, boss patterns, and the amount of cooldown reduction in your build, the introduction of the Ark Passive system allows for you to alleviate most of these issues. 
If you encounter mana issues, equip focus runes instead of quick recharge, consume mana regeneration food, or even opt for a lower swiftness build variant.

Is Predator or Punisher Slayer stronger?

Curently it favors Predator Slayer.
Predator Slayer has a simpler, more intuitive playstyle. By nature of being a primarily Swiftness class, its attack speed, movement speed, and low spacebar cooldowns make it more forgiving. Predator Slayer excels in content with little interruption windows and an emphasis on mobility. Punisher Slayer in turn has much higher burst damage and a moderately higher ceiling. Punisher Slayer especially excels in re-clear content where burst damage is favored.

Youtube channels for gameplay reference

Korean Kazeros the 4th - https://www.youtube.com/@domuk123

NA Thaemine the 3rd / Kazeros 2nd clear  - https://www.youtube.com/@sycaro7007

EU Kazeros the 2nd -  https://www.youtube.com/@Senjouu_loa/videos

Korean Slayer regularly uploading clears / builds - https://youtube.com/channel/UCPPTpoHRRL6F0J_BJFIty9A?si=an0VMErr8ja3HOSO

Korean Slayer regularly uploading clears / builds - https://www.youtube.com/@Bin_Bu_Siu

Korean Slayer regularly uploading clears / builds - https://www.youtube.com/@chambong9650/videos