[Active]
Break your enemy's armor to reduce defense for a short time.
Destruction Skill
  • Consumes Destruction gauge and acquire Vitality gauge
  • Attack Power ↑ when Destruction is activated
Final Enhanced Skill
  • Damage is increased by 1.2 times.


Requirements

Class Level Required Skill Requirement
Sword Knight 30 Intermediate Training Skill Quest


Skill Information

Level Required Strong Hit (Physical)   Enemy DebuffArmor Break MP Usage Cooldown
Physical Defense Decrease Duration
Normal
PvE 980% 30% 7 Seconds 40 MP 7 Seconds
PvP 245% 20%
[Enhanced]
PvE 1175% 30% 7 Seconds 40 MP 7 Seconds
PvP 293% 20%


Skill Traits

Killing Blow (1) Armor BreakHaste Armor Break
Attribute EffectDurationAttribute EffectCooldown
Skill effect's duration increased to 150%10.5 SecondsCooldown decreased to 80%5.6 Seconds


Total Damage

ModeBaseKnighthood
NormalDestructionNormalDestruction
PvE1,175%1,762.5%1,292.5%1,938.75%
PvP293%366.25%307.65%384.56%
  • Damage calculations do not take   Enemy DebuffArmor Break into account.


Related Skills


Tips and Details

 
Armor Break icon
  • The debuff will be taken into account for the skill's damage.
    • Enemies under the effects of the debuff are marked with an Armor Break icon, as seen on the right.
  • This debuff does stack with the   Enemy DebuffPower Break debuff, which means as Knight Emperor, he can inflict both debuffs to dramatically reduce a target's defense.
  • This debuff does not stack with Armor Crash. However, [Mod] Armor Break does stack.


Updates

Date Changes
KR NA PvE PvP
08/06/2009 05/04/2011
  • Armor Break added.
11/07/2013 02/12/2014
  • Damage decreased.
  • Success Rate reduced.
05/15/2014 09/17/2014
  • Success Rate increased to 100%.
  • Skill Note is changed so it increases the defense decrease by 10%.
  • Defense Reduction effect decreased.
02/05/2015 -
  • Defense Reduction effect decreased.
01/12/2017 01/24/2017
  • Damage decreased.
04/27/2017 05/10/2017
  • Damage decreased.
  • Physical Defense Decrease decreased.
02/22/2018 04/18/2018
  • Damage decreased.
  • Damage increased.
04/05/2018
  • Damage increased.
  • Damage decreased.
03/07/2019 03/27/2019
  • None
  • Physical Defense Decrease decreased.
09/01/2022 09/28/2022
  • Killing Blow (2) trait changed to Haste.


Alternative Names

Server Name Translation
  South Korea 아머 브레이크 Armor Break
  Japan アーマーブレイク Armor Break
  China (Simplified Chinese) 碎甲术 Armor Break
  Germany Rüstung zerreißen Armor Break
  Spain Destrozar armadura Break Armor
  France Briser l'armure Armor Break
  Italy Strappa l'Armatura Armor Break
  Poland Rozpłatanie Zbroi Armor Break
  United Kingdom Tear Armour
  Brazil Quebrar Armadura Armor Break