Hi, I’m making a Blade master at the moment and I was wondering your throughts on this build currently level 43 playing on Veteran. My first char from scratch
I’m using (current / planned)
NB level 50
Dual blades 14/16
Execution 5/ - minimum required for 20% chance to proc after + skills
Pnematic burst 6/12
Veil of Shadows 7/10
Nights Chill 6/10
Anatomy of Murder 1/12
0/1 nightfall
1/1 Nadalias justifiable ends
1 in all points required to get those skills
1 in blade trap for crowd control
Soldier level 25/50
1/1 fighting spirit
1/10 conditioning
0/1 scars of battle
0/1 decorated soldier
0/1 squad tactics
1/12 field command
0/12 Olnerons rage
That leaves me with 5 points remaining at level 85. Are those the best Soldier passives for a pierce build? So far my damage output is good and I’m sure it will be amazing once I get better gear
So far for the last few levels I’ve been pumping points in Soldier to get to olnerons rage ASAP but I’m dying frequently usually due to high burst damage or high elemental damage. I get especially wrecked with Aether and Chaos mobs I have to be really cautiious and kite all day long. Though to be fair I haven’t been farming and I’m usually facing mobs between 3-5 levels above me. When I start to outlevel an area and am facing yellow enemies or green enemies I do quite well and don’t die much at all.
My resists are shit and so far nothing worthwile has dropped everything feels like a sidegrade. Oh this set of yellow pants has better resists but it doesn’t have armour or pierce damage ect.
Should I continue to race through the Soldier mastery to get Olnerons Rage or slow down a bit a put points which give me more immediate and tangible benefits such as maxing the Night Blade tree? At the cost of delaying my best skills
I also am unsure about Anatomy of Murder and some of the defensive skills in the NB tree. I could take those points out of anatomy of murder and take 12 points in fighting spirit. 200% to all damage active about 2/3 of the time during a fight or according to grim calc a massive nearly 200 point gain to cunning which gives probably less damage on paper but is active all the time increases offense greatly so I’m hitting more often and scoring crits more often (increased chance to hit and increased chance to crit plus bonus for being way over their defense so higher crit multiplier as well) more crits also means more proccing of the OP constellation skills… Faster proccs on execution as well. this is harder to quantify than a simple 200% boost active 2/3 of the time
Constelation wise I’ve got 18 points or so I’ve got The assasins blade, Empty throne, crane, harpy, and am working on Wolverine. Once I have wolverine I will have 20 points in ascendant and take olneron and unknown soldier. They look to have some AMAZING DPS buffs
I plan on also picking up tree of life, obelisk, behemoth, and Okaines lantern and Blades of Nadan. I’ve worked it out and it’s doable but I always have to go for the more costly ones first and then despec later from the fillers