I’m still seeing people who’ve never used blade advise others and myself not to use it. Some long time players still think it’s a terrible weapon and some don’t even know about the changes. Not only do I want them to see what blade can do, I want to see what people are doing with it now. Please post parses, videos, screenshots, builds, and favorite blade gear here for everyone to see if you’re not keeping it a secret.
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Here are some Bird Regional parses in case anyone wants to check out blade. No Crushing Tide was used to keep Spirit Blade for 7th son (offhand: Fist). This includes the ridiculous amount of invisible cyclone hits, too. Those things are driving me nuts!
Parsing over 30k like this, no gadget, no 6th ability slot (the one Razor Shards is in). Hammer’s other expose is a better straight dps tool for solo single targets but I like just running this build on all content, not having to load different abilities. I run all 3 hammer signets.
7th Son is a very good offhand now. After ~6 attacks and this passive you have permanent Spirit Blade until you die or change zones. There’s also “if you wait 4.5 seconds between blade attacks, your next one will add an additional chi” which is totally viable, but this one is sufficient. There’s even a 3rd option for the passive slot that deals damage and gains a chi when you break spirit blade, that might be the best but it’s a matter of 50-100 dps if so.
In the right circumstances that blade ability that consumes all spirit blades for 5k damage each would be killer in this setup, it often gets to 10 charges late in a fight.
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Heck yeah! I noticed how great it was as an offhand one day, too. I used Hurricane in an AR/Blade build in OD, and I also had the permanent Spirit Blade with 7th Son. It killed everything sooo quickly whenever I had the energy to use it again.
Do you use the three 8% power agents now that they work with Swallow Cut? Great idea on the blade passive.
Dark Agartha E17 - Challenge Timeline: Strong Survivors
I know DA is a lot easier now, but this is a nice Blade/Fist build.
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Oh, I haven’t even touched my agents, still using hammer/weapon power, hammer/hp, and 10% monster-type. I think the balance is not in their favour; too much of my dps is from Eruption & hammer basics. (have not parsed recently but at a guess, hammer is 85-90% of my dps, power moves are 70%)
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Even before the changes i felt like Blade was made for DA. Dont have a particular build to share, as I change things around a lot. I enjoyed the new speed boost on tsunami greatly against the Prime Maker. Its No issue to keep up, even if the tank decides to run for life.
During beta i messed a little with Blade main in S&P and was quite happy with the elite stun for group spawns. The damage buff is quite tasty with enough targets.
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You think so? I thought blade was pretty difficult in E17 DA before the rebalance, but now you can see the health just fall off of the bosses. Before, there were a lot of complaints about how long it took to beat it with Challenge Timelines. Some people couldn’t get them all completed, especially on days were the time was shortened by 4 minutes and our damage is decreased by 30%. And some of those peeps either can’t afford or don’t like to waste mof on help from the Irreparable Custodian.
Yeah, blade is great in S&P’s. I love using Tempest on mobs.
Blade may not have been the quickest, but both on self heals and Cleanses it was pretty damn set, and the speed buff doesnt hurt in combat and out of it =P.
Blade is pretty good now. Hope this endorsement helps 
Yeah, but speed (amount of dmg) was a big 'ol reason for the complaints in DA.
Dps is always a complain to ppl, even when it really shouldnt matter =P. Blade got me through just fine on level, even when i just reached a new elite tier.
I’m guessing not E17. I beat them all with blade basic, but I still completely understand the past complaints. But that’s just me. I can still see why people were completing even though I beat it.
Anyway, that’s in the past.
I don’t think blade hindered me at all in E17 DA but it’s definitely got ability combos that deal more than I can heal with just CD and Forged in Fire now, and I have no more healing options to put in. Luckily I have 3 lives to spend on the GK most times so I can just outsurvive him with effective 45k hp.