Curse

some guy · Nov 12, 2006, 05:42 AM // 05:42

This is actually a problem that puzzled me for a while.

Things you need to know to figure it out the answer:

Attributes
14 dagger mastery
10 shadow arts
12 critical hits

Weapon:
Ungues of Oni (customized)

Skills:
Mark of Instablility
Black Lotus Strike
Twisted Fangs
Falling Spider
Blades of Steel

The problem:
Lately, I was browsing the assassin skill tab for a priest of Balthazar, I saw the skill, Blades of Steel. I have never considered it before, but hey, I bought it from a skill trainer. I used it with some builds, it's a great finishing move, for some weird reason I decided to use other dual attacks, I tried Death Blossom, but it did not match the damage of Blades of Steel.

Here is the strange part, at 14 dagger mastery, Death Blosssom dose +42 damage, Blades of Steel dose +13 damage for each recharging attack,if you do the math, using the skills I said earlier, the total damage for blades of steel is +39 (black lotus strike, twisted fangs, falling spider) from those 3 dagger attacks. In theory death blossom should outdamage blades of steel, but it didn't, I whacked some 60 al dummies on the island, the average damage of blades of steel is about 75-85 damage on the first hit, 55-65 on the second hit, for death blossom, the average damage on the first hit is about 50-60 (got 72 but only once out of 10 tries), the average damage is about 45-50.

So my question is, how dose blades of steel outdamage death blossom??

Assassins, try this out, so far I'm stumped.

DarkZeal · Nov 12, 2006, 06:47 AM // 06:47

This is actually a quiet old build that appeared before NF came out. It's a strong combo except relies too much on one hex sticking. BOS out damages it because it counts itself for a dagger skill too.

some guy · Nov 12, 2006, 06:51 AM // 06:51

Really, I never knew that, but technically, it isn't recharging, so I don't think it should count it self as a skill.

swordfisher · Nov 12, 2006, 06:55 AM // 06:55

I think he did answer your question- Blades of Steel is counting itself as recharging, so it's +52 (capped at 50) rather than +39. This narrowly beats Death Blossom.

Isileth · Nov 12, 2006, 07:37 AM // 07:37

Yes it works in the same way as the ranger elite Enraged Lunge, which also counts itself as recharging.

Yanman.be · Nov 12, 2006, 02:42 PM // 14:42

I'd put HoTo in there...way more usefull than BoS.

some guy · Nov 12, 2006, 05:09 PM // 17:09

What is HoTo?

icedragon981 · Nov 12, 2006, 05:31 PM // 17:31

Horns of the Ox

BlackSephir · Nov 15, 2006, 07:01 PM // 19:01

2x KD would be nice... I tried to mix Moebius Strike with Horns of the Ox when I want my enemy to stay down and shut up