The regularity on which the cheap shot kicked in on the lashing was reduced after it was seen by all to be overpowered. It would almost always give a cheap shot before and an incident that I recall that happened not long before the changes involved a master gnome invoker (Zomerseis), an arial scout thief (leit) and a svirf warrior berserker (Ludi) and at the archmage, Ludi lashed and Leit cheapshotted about 2000hps worth of shielded invoker with said invoker being left pretty powerless. It does kick in but just not as regularly as a trip or bash would allow.