Looking for a bit of advice on my Blademaster please

[Stupid_Dragon]

My armor on my stat sheet went up like 10 points total, even though those shoulders like are 700 more armor than my current ones.

Your previous shoulders had 6-8% armor bonus on them which applied to all pieces of your gear, so it averaged like that.

Oh, and I was using those Living Armor components just because I thought they were really good, not exactly for the armor absorption I suppose. I was having trouble capping Chaos resist, and those helped overcap my elemental resist and also gave more offensive ability… that was my reasoning anyway.

I’d say try using two Sanctified Bones. 16% bonus damage to undead and chthonics is going to be better than slightly more OA I think. Only problem is you’d have to find elemental resistance, but I take it you’ve already found it on Coven Combatant Spaulders.

Overall components is something that is more or less similar from build to build because people had long figured the optimal ways. Builds with Soldier tend to differ a bit because they have Armor Absorption on Scars of Battle (which is an amazing passive I recommend to have at 8/8).

Here’s a blademaster component setup that looks good to me:
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/b28B3YqZ

Don’t mind the affixes, it’s obviously stashed.

Could always craft a Belgothians Carnage. Does that cooldown reduction help passives from devotions and/or items?

Didn’t test it myself but there’s this cheat sheet:

Cooldown Reduction Mechanics 2019.

So i’ve been theorycrafting a lil bit with my newb knowledge about the game and tried searching a bit on how does CDR work in this game and what does it affect. However most significant threads were quite old from like 2015 so i thought i’d make a 2019 version. I’ll ask here if y’all don’t mind: Is CDR additive or multiplicative? Does CDR affect item skills and/or devotion skills? Does Aeon’s Hourglass affect other devotion skills and/or item skills? Do items with the proc “-X Secon…

Some of those things I haven’t even heard of, or seen the in the builds that came up when I google it. The relic I’ve seen almost every build I’ve looked up using. I was kind of wondering why but the whirlwinds with the debuff seemed good I thought.

Baffling. That relic was always considered a meme afaik.

Also, I just opened your devotions and it seems like your build has no flat RR. That’s a typical setup for a high end blademaster, but it only makes sense with Mythical Grasp of Unchained Might because it gives flat RR to ring of steel. For that reason my budget blademaster setup looks like that: