Nightblade lacks AoE skills

If you don’t go Phantasmal Blades then NB doesn’t have any AoE skill. Atm I’m levelling my Nightblade (I’m lvl47 atm) and I have to run to almost each mob and kill it. If the room is full of monsters I get too much incoming damage because I can’t kill many monsters at once and ‘commute’ between them killing one by one. For example in Tomb of Korvaak. That chaos damage really hurts. I have pheumatic burst, of course but if it is on cooldown i have a lot of problems. Any suggestions? I took Arcanist as my second mastery and it helps a bit with OFF but not too much.

here’s my build - http://grimcalc.com/build/OuUtG3

I’m pretty sure that the dual blades line has several passive AoE attacks. I’m Blademaster lvl 61 and can clear groups of mobs quite satisfactorily.

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Then you have blade trap, kind of AoE CC with lots of bleeding, Night’s Chill AoE offensive aura… can be done.

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Nightblade is almost all aoe…

The duel blades line has aoe, phantasmal blades is aoe, ring of steel, shadow strike when you get nightfall is amazing aoe. Blade trap is also aoe and blade spirit can help a lot too.

Whirling Blades and Belgothians Shears says hi. Then there’s offensive devotions.

Use augments and components.

There’s several decent AoE skills in nightblade, but as was previously stated feels like most of my trash clearing comes from blades of wrath and Blind Fury (Oleron’s) devotions. Toss blind fury on blade spirit and it’ll melt trash mobs.

Also don’t forget Blade Spirit, Night’s Chill, and Nightfall, three very powerful AoE abilities.

>Nightblade lacks AOE
>Amarasta Blade Burst is literally the first skill available for NB and is AOE

If you take no AoE abilities your class has no AoE. Mind blown.

To be fair it is also quite possibly the worst AoE skill in the game.

Although between Blade Spirit, Ring of Steel, and the two AoE weapon pool skills I really don’t see nightblades as a whole having trouble with AoE.

That is a pretty damned odd post considering Garfunkel has been around the forums for a minute or so.

As noted there is AoE running all thru NB tree beginning to end.

Kinda makes me wonder if Garfunkel thinks AoE must be ranged to be AoE?

If so, still weird.

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Ok I meant ‘good’ AoE like Oleron’s Blind Fury 5m radius.

To be fair pretty much all AoE skills are tiny in this game and are either unsustainable or weak.

In other masteries if AoE radius of skills is low that skill at least has low cooldown but AoE skills in NB have 3.5+sec cooldown. Dual Blades skills are not actually AoE because they just hit monsters around the player (like 1-2m radius).

There we go. Knew we had to have been missing some critical info.

Elaborate please. I’ve never had much issue with “sustainability”. You want to eat energy for morning, noon, and night then a player should factor usage into their build and compensate as required.

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Being worst AOE =/= not having any AOEs in the mastery, though.

ABB still needs some decent buff AND have it’s Pierce damage back again, because for whatever reason, Crate thought it was a nice idea to remove the Pierce damage from it… but, despite all that, it can be pretty good early on with trash mob clearing, plus it’s 2 secs cooldown lets you use it pretty often.