Did you know you can assign devotion skills to Whirling Blades (Seal of Blades)?
Did you know you can activate two Whirling Blades and assign devotion skills individually? (You need two Seal of Blades)
Did you know that assigned skills will activate even with other attacks?
For Example,
assign Wendigo’s mark on Whirling Blades A (Left hand Seal of Blades)
assign Vampire Fangs on Whirling Blades B (Right hand Seal of Blades)
assign Eldrich Fire on Curse of Frailty
than use Curse on some mob far away from you (outside Whirling Blades’ range)
that mob will get hit by Curse, Edrich Fire, Wendigo’s Mark, Vampire Fangs, and any other gear skills that activates on attack or on critical.
Also, some devotion skill has low or no CD at all, so if you assign skills like flame torrent, whirling blade attack becomes way too powerful.
Here is simple video I made
To be honest, I like how this works but this might be too OP.
On the other hand, other component skills like Oleron’s Might etc. CAN be used twice independently, the only difference is Whirling Blades being an aura. So maybe it is working as intended? Sounds pretty OP with that devo stuff though tbh :D:D
This build is defensive build, so killing dummy is not her strong point.
With Wirling Blades - about min or less to kill dummy
Without Whirling Blades - about 2min - 3min to kill dummy
Able to spam low/no CD devotion skills like Flame Torrent is very good, but since other attacks will activate the devotion skills set on whirling blade, so it is like you can assign three devotion skills to one skill.
In different setup, her Curse of Frailty will put Eldrich Fire, Wendigo’s mark, and range attack with vampire fang. Even mob is at edge of your screen.
If anything, it seems unintuitive and broken for devotions linked to whirling blades to proc on all other attacks. Is there another aoe damage aura in the game with the same behavior?
It puts belgothian pierce blademaster on same level as other builds like Jajaja’s warder. You can see how “op” it is from crucible clear times in the belgothian pierce BM guide (it’s slower than jajaja’s warder).
If they want to nerf it, wish they would give heads up so I (and others) don’t waste time farming for belgothian setup.
The funny part is, when i therycrafted my melee tank, he doesnt even need to use Seal of Blades (cause he has no constellation procs to be triggered with it): http://www.grimtools.com/calc/JVlq6L7Z
Then again your set-up have close to no aoe beside cadence.
I kinda like the idea to attach a skill to sceal of blades BUT:
The sceal itseflt, and only the sceal should be able to trigger devotion procs, which means you would have to be in close range all the time.
If needed, changing how the sceal trigger procs, somehow it seems to be a lot more frequent than if you attack with your weapons. It could ‘‘attack’’ at the same speed as your aps with an auto-attack OR once per second.
I noted recently that I was able to run two of the same skill; never thought to check if I could assign devotes to both.
It makes sense to allow both to function like adding a 100% dam type to a 100% dam type; but not having a single devote assign work for both (essentially being checked and proc’d twice).
I agree it’s a shame we are having a race to the bottom with nerfs, but it is clearly not an intended function of the original balance the devs went for.