In the loving memory of 1.0.0.4. As I walk through the valley of shadow of death I shall fear no nerf.
actually please no more nerfs 
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Have you contacted Crate about joining their teams and figuring out which skills are OP? :rolleyes: Seems your builds are typically some of the fastest in the game and then the next patch comes out and those builds get nerfed… Seems that you’re doing a lot of the testing for them…maybe you should get paid for your work. :D:rolleyes:
Seriously though, good work on finding this builds. I’m sure you’ll find the tweaks to still make these some of the best even with the nerfs!
haha, i got a good full time job, so i don’t need crate to pay me; in fact i’d be happy to pay them to make the game better.
plus if i work for them then i can’t flame zantai for nerfing my builds ^^ :rolleyes:
The insanity of that crit :rolleyes: My BM is crying himself to sleep cause his 229k means nothing
to appease u, it was in duo with a support 
altho it was only on an execute.
Don’t feel bad, Crate is not done nerfing Blademasters yet. They can’t get enough of it.
How bad do you think the nerfs are with 1.0.0.5? Obviously will require some playtesting, just curious.
I did notice that Meteor Shower, Raise the Dead were buffed. Obviously the big nerfs are to Fire Strike and Shadow Strike (unfortunately the core of the build :furious:) oh and Execution too, boo
Maybe we should stop discussing blademasters on forums and stop writing guides for it. Constant nerfs really annoying lol. We can just discuss among ourselves on steam chat or something.
So me and drizzto, just tested the “top” tier builds, blademaster, spellbreaker, saboteur, lightning savagery.
looks like we are all pretty even on dummy dps now, between 30-35sec
its now a matter of survivability. where i feel demo is the clear winner here with flashbang/blastshield.
this build is not dead dont worry ;p
For comparison, what was the relative time from your 3.0 changes, pre-nerf? Compared to the 30-35 seconds
24s on bm/sabo, 30 on savagery
That was why I never posted kill times, videos or about anything awesome in my thread. I think someone lurks those threads and just yells:
HEY GUYS, WE GOT ANOTHER NERF TO DO TO BLADEMASTERS !!!
Edit: Fixed a word.
this is exactly what people are doing now in diablo 3, they hide the next meta on PTR (because they know its gonna be nerfed if its become public) and show it once its live only (since they dont have the choice with leaderboard ><)
Just tried to beat crucible with this build on challenger difficulty. Keep getting stunlocked to death on lvl ~130. Maybe it was just bad luck with shamblers spawns. Any ideas how to increase stun resist?
MI pants.
boots, gloves
with any build, will need to do alot of revamp to max all resist more or less if soloing crucible
Would this build still be the best for a first-time character in SC assuming I have no gear/components/etc to compliment it following the nerfs? Cheers.
This one is maybe better for a new player :
Could anyone recommend what a “good roll” for a Legion Firestarter would look like? Just a ballpark, thanks!
Could be a good addition to this excellent guide.
For the lvl 50 ones, i have try to have the best attack speed / and fire DMG in priority one, priorty 2 is %fire.
Hope i’m not wrong Jajaja ?
I believe max +AS (attack speed) is 9% per sword. I know you get get the +fire damage to over +140%, so I’d shoot for 140% or higher. I forget what the flat fire damage range is.