Active defenses as modifiers

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Varyon

Telegraphic Attack is useful when up against a foe who currently cannot defend.

I didn't say it was useless, I said it was a false choice. An interesting choice involves a tradeoff, and telegraphic attack doesn't do that, it's either straight up superior (target has low or no defenses) or straight up inferior (target has high defenses) so the only interesting decision making is in guessing what category your target fits in to. The same problem exists for deceptive attack.