Techniques That Need Damage Spading

I used to keep this page on a forum post here but moving to a real page so everyone can edit if they want.

I've been going through all the techniques that need damage spading and knocking off the easier ones. I went through and made a table to prioritize the remaining ones by ease of spading. ("Hard" = either actually difficult or just time consuming, eg. waiting for a snowmaiden to show up, (or both)). Some of these are pretty arbitrary designations though.

Please feel free to contribute.

Technique	Difficulty To Learn	Difficulty To Spade	Notes
Acidic Ecofuel	x	xxxx (vs Writhing Flesh)	needs pvp
Beginning Focus	xxx (unlearnable)	xx	(defense)
Bloodied Draw	x	x	needs mechanics
Breath Of Dust	xx	x	needs mechanics
Brace Spear	xx	xxx	needs mechanics
Brutal Claw	x	xxx	needs mechanics
Call Of The Moon	xx (unlearnable)	xxxx
Call To Feast	xx	xx	need protein analyser, easier w/0 will
Candle in the Dark	x	xxxx (evasion vs. spectres)
Channel Inspiration	x	xx	easier w/0 will
Confused Focus	xxx (unlearnable)	xxx (evasion type/power)
Contempt	xx (mechanics not fully understood)	xxx (evasion/types)
Cyberbowl Rush	xxx	xx (evasion type/power)	needs long distance
Dance Of Ashes	xx	xx (evasion type/power)	needs mechanics
Dance Of Silver	xxx	xxxx (evasion type/power)	underwater/Dance of Silver
Emerald Thoughts	xx	xxx (evasion power)
Fire Run	xxxx (unknown mech)	xx (evasion type/power)
Flowing Glow	x (unlearnable)	xx
Gamer's Shot	xxxx	x
Gem Break	xxxx	xx (evasion power vs. E)
Glass Helm	xxx	xxxxx (blocks near infinite damage, hard to test limits)
Grasp Of Pain	xxx	xxxx	mechanics not understood, and one very specialized case
Harvester Grin	xxx	xxxx	needs mechanics
Hidden Pain	x	xx
Hollow Gaze	xxx	xx
Incendiary Grenade (technique)	xx	xx	underwater
Insect Visage	xx	xx
Integrated Ram Play	xxx	xxxxx	needs pvp cooperation
Lesson Of Flowers	xxx	xxxx (lots evasion power/types)
Lethal Resolve	xxx (may need Ocean Sight?)	xxxxx (evasion power/type)	underwater, Cold Depths and cultured pearl
Living Spear	x	xx
Masked Evasion	xxx	xx (evasion types, not power)
Minute Focus	xxx (unlearnable)	x
Mirror Shot	xx	xxxx (mechanics unknown)
Mirror Strike	xx	xxxx (mechanics unknown)
Open Parasol	xx	?	mechanics really unknown
Personal Focus (technique)	xxx (unlearnable)	x
Petrifying Roar	xxxx (mechanics unknwon)	xx
Posture	xxx	xxxx (evasion power/types)	needs mechanics
Practiced Step	xx (target gallery)	xxxx (evasion power/types)	underwater
Predatory Leap	x	xxxxx (evasion power/types)	in all five moon chains
Reflected Gaze	xx (unlearnable)	xxxx (mechanics unknown)
ReflexCoil Leap	xx	x (just need vs F evasion test)
Release The Hounds	x	xx (evasion power vs E)
SDnano	x	xxx (mechanics unknown)
Silver Bullets	x	xxxxx	needs Undead Scourge; pvp?
Skin Of The Wolf	x (unlearnable)	xxx (evasion power/types)	mechanics unknown
Sovereign Soil	xx	xxx	mechanics unknown
Spider Eyes	xx	xxx	mechanics unknown
Stage Magic	x	xx
Stellar Focus	xxx (unlearnable)	x
Swinging Chain	x	xxxx (evasion power/types)	mechanics unknown
Top Hat Trick	x	xxxxx	test once per day
Unexpected Grab	x	xxxx	vs human underwater; needs pvp?
Whiteout	xxx	xx (evasion power vs S)
Wildcat Play	xxx	xxxxx	needs pvp
Winged Hunter (technique)	xxxxx	xxxxx	mechanics unknown

* Potentially requires reset and/or really low stats

Needs other investigation

Other techniques that need investigation, such as mechanics for unlocking certain forms, include:

• Steel Rocket (what determines if armored?)
• Skin Of The Wolf (heavens vs sky?)
• Swinging Chain (what lets you swing?)
• Open Parasol (what determines crashing wave?)
• Lucky Shot (what determines luck?)
• Sovereign Soil (what causes suffocation?)
• And also search for pages tagged with both "techniques" and "needs_mechanics"