Martial Art Skills - Discussion

[Floating Elephants]

The idea of this discussion was to ask for some advice palm/spear in this case, but also have a good practices / help thread.

I am currently maining a fist, a saber and a sword immortal. I like all of them, but my first character going into this game was spear and palm.

Spear was deeply disappointing to me, the animation looks like it is a throwing spear? which is a big mistake I think, I went to foundation on spear on easy mode, and I hated it, it always felt like a chore.
- Not sure how it performs in late-game, but at least early on it was very dissatisfying.
- Animation should probably have been a 33-40 degree fan-sweeping motion, would look more like the h2h spear skills that the skill books depicts rather than the greco-roman spear throwing we have going now.

Palm was what I rolled next, I sort of liked it, sort of found myself struggling a whole lot using it, and I quietly shifted to finger, which made things a lot easier, so when I unlocked the next difficulty I began out on Finger, and by accident picked up a sword manual, and I ended up going the sword cultivator way (which I had sworn was the last option).
- Palm, I want to like it so bad, but by god am I playing it wrong somehow, any advice?
- Finger skills? good bad? I only used them for a short bit, viable long-term?

Sword/Fist/Saber, no qualms, I like all of them.

- Spiritual Root skills I generally use as secondary skills, but not really as the main one, let's keep this discussion for Martial Art skills -

[dimm_ddr]

I use palm and I like it. In martial I like to use the skill with several explosions in line or one that send an explosive palm forward - both are amazing against trash mobs and quite easy to use to hit enemy cultivators since they are both aoe and cover decent area. My favorite special is spiraling palms, it has good aoe and good damage. I did not like other specials I found so far though. Ultimate - palm vortex is amazing. Easy to get prerequisites as you only need 2 charged specials, cover most of the area, suck enemies to the center, although not very strongly and do good damage even if a bit random. Movement palm skill on the other hand is one of the worst I think. Plain agility increase without any other effects, really?

[Floating Elephants]

Originally posted by dimm_ddr:

I use palm and I like it. In martial I like to use the skill with several explosions in line or one that send an explosive palm forward - both are amazing against trash mobs and quite easy to use to hit enemy cultivators since they are both aoe and cover decent area. My favorite special is spiraling palms, it has good aoe and good damage. I did not like other specials I found so far though. Ultimate - palm vortex is amazing. Easy to get prerequisites as you only need 2 charged specials, cover most of the area, suck enemies to the center, although not very strongly and do good damage even if a bit random. Movement palm skill on the other hand is one of the worst I think. Plain agility increase without any other effects, really?

Sounds promising, I will definitely try my hand at Palm again, any fate suggestions here?

[Vento]

From best to worst:
Blade, Palm, Fist, Sword, Spear, Finger.

Palm skills rely heavily on RNG of getting Sect Rewrite Destiny that makes you deal minimum fixed damage per instance, allowing you to kill all those rank VIII-X Heavens Chosen cultivators. The most powerful ultimate belong to the Palm tree - it creates little circle towards which launches around 300 attacks from outside over a period of time, also knocking back and reducing agility. It can decimate any stationary boss by itself, as well as most cuiltivators if used in conjunction with maximum Vitality/DEF Bell artifact that is infused with Black Cat spirit girl.

The most powerful special skill is almost always Shadowless Sword - almost nothing can survive 20 homing swords of doom. Well, with

Autoattacks are definitely Blade because lifesteal and circle-type attack that you don't have to aim, which is nice when you are dealing with cultivators who like to run a lot(all of them).

Spears kinda suck because of having to aim, but shotgun effect is somewhat worth it. Also second movement skill camouflaged as special skill that makes you dash up to 3 times in a row. Very annoying to play against.

There is a Fist special skill that detonates your shield dealing damage per each point of shield, and with 120k HP plus both Vitality-To-Shield Rewrite Destinies it simply obliterates anything in the entire game. With Blade autoattack you would also gain full HP in case your enemy somehow survived nuclear shield explosion.