Something is wrong about the soldier introduction text

[Evil_Baka]

Spam blade arc being a borderline nightmare,

I have leveled few times Soldier builds, both as Blade Arc and Forcewave. I like BA better actually.

Can vouch for levelling Blade Arc as well, mainly 2-handed. Korvan Celestial Halberd is bonkers strong for Physical Death Knight. Outside of Physical, I’ve even levelled fine with it just picking up a relevant 2-handed pure damage MI with affixes for Physical conversion and attack speed e.g. Decaying Spectral Warmaul of Alacrity for Vitality.

1-handed might be more problematic with the low base weapon damage so it’s harder to scale up with weapon damage but i wonder if this could be circumvented by hardcapping Laceration and pushing Physical damage to Blade Arc mods instead, 1-handed means with typically more attack speed that you apply this damage at a faster rate than 2-handed. E.g. https://www.grimtools.com/calc/pZrBYxOZ. Would need to be tested .

Cadence having a bad reputation for being bad (or at minimum have a significant amount of stat checks required to become decent for leveling)

I’ve also tried leveling as shield Cadence once, no thank you

Also agree that Cadence levelling by itself is god awful and I never want to go through that hell again . But it seems a little better with either Aetherwarped Cleaver or Voldrak’s Crusher and 12/12 Fighting Form for a bit of crowd clear. Ulvar1 posted Voldrak Warder levelling so it can’t be entirely bad right?