Tachi: Gekko

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Great Katana weapon skill

• Skill level: 225
• Mutes target. Damage varies with TP.
• Will stack with Sneak Attack.

Properties

• Element: None

• Skillchain properties: Distortion / Reverberation

• Modifiers: STR:75%

• Damage Multipliers by TP:

100%TP	200%TP	300%TP
1.5625	1.875	2.50

Note: The TP multipliers for the last three Great Katana weaponskills were reduced to balance with the increase in attack from two handed weapons in late 2007.

Skillchain Usage

When performed after a Gravitation-based (Earth & Dark) Skillchain, Tachi: Gekko result will be a high-level Darkness Skillchain. When performed after a Fragmentation-based (Wind & Lightning) Skillchain or weapon skill, the result will be a Distortion-based (Water & Ice) Skillchain.

Skillchain	Starting Weaponskill	Closing Weaponskill
Darkness	Tachi: Gekko Asuran Fists Evisceration Swift Blade Impulse Drive Blade: Ten, Blade: Ku	Tachi: Gekko Asuran Fists Evisceration Swift Blade Impulse Drive Blade: Ten, Blade: Ku
Distortion	Dragonkick Shark Bite Savage Blade Spinning Slash, Ground Strike	Tachi: Gekko
Fragmentation	Tachi: Hobaku, Tachi: Yukikaze Raging Rush Guillotine Blast Shot Blast Arrow	Tachi: Gekko
Fusion	Tachi: Gekko	Tachi: Kasha Mistral Axe, Decimation Wheeling Thrust Heavy Shot, Detonator Arching Arrow, Empyreal Arrow
Impaction	Tachi: Gekko	Tachi: Koki Raging Fists, Howling Fist Dancing Edge Vorpal Blade Sickle Moon Steel Cyclone Skewer Blade: Chi, Blade: Jin
Induration	Tachi: Gekko	Tachi: Hobaku, Tachi: Yukikaze Raging Rush Guillotine Blast Shot Blast Arrow
Reverberation	Tachi: Enpi, Tachi: Jinpu Howling Fist Viper Bite, Dancing Edge Vorpal Blade Sickle Moon Rampage, Calamity Nightmare Scythe, Spinning Scythe, Vorpal Scythe, Spiral Hell Vorpal Thrust, Skewer Blade: Chi Slug Shot, Blast Shot, Detonator Sidewinder, Blast Shot, Empyreal Arrow	Tachi: Gekko

Notes

On the animation for Tachi: Gekko, a thin lime green ring circles the moon outwards, of which translates in Hebrew to "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.".

Translation

See Tachi: Enpi for the translation of "Tachi:"

This weaponskill's original name in the Japanese version is:

八之太刀・月光 (Hachi no Tachi: Gekkou)

"The Eighth Style of the Tachi: 'Moonlight'."

The kanji are 月 (Getsu): "Moon", and 光 (Kou): "Light". This is reflected in the weaponskill itself, as the animation illustrates a brightly glowing moon.

Levels

• Tachi: Gekko is only available to Samurai. While other jobs can obtain the required 225 Great Katana skill through the use of merits and special equipment, they will be unable to use Tachi: Gekko.
• Great Katana skill level 225 is obtainable by the following jobs at these corresponding levels:

Job	Rating	Level
Samurai	A+	65