Blademaster Any good on Normal+ difficulty?

[Gosha92]

The guy can damage insanely,its fun to play too,but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I cant make him tanky enough to go on elite,even on normal mobs kinda drop me below 20% HP.I have a LOT of defensive skills in both trees but still feels like ♥♥♥♥.Can anyone help me?

[Raviel]

Blademaster is one if not the hardest class to play if you don't have godly items. You need to be patient and do hit and run attacks, facetanking is extremely hard to do and much easyer to achieve on a different build.

For elite try getting armor ressistances and hp, you need sustain skills, some heals some lifesteal maybe. Its not my playstyle so im not sure how to level it properly. mine was awkward and tanky, he did complete ultimate but wasn't anything nearly impressive while blademaster is considered one of the strongest lategame builds in the game.

Look for a guide maybe or maybe someone more experienced than me to give you tips.

[TSP]

Hey there!

There are a couple of builds for your class setup that work really well on Ultimate (The hardest difficulty)

Listed from least gear dependant to most gear dependant:

http://grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38457 <Least gear dependant
http://grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23899 <Somewhat gear dependant
http://grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30989 <Quite gear dependant, Tanky, a ton of damage
http://grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29617 <Most gear dependant, crazy amounts of damage but a bit squishier than the previous one


Take a look at all of those guides, and pick the guide that suits your taste and desires the most. So if there's a certain skill required in that build, but you hate that skill, try one of the others.

GL!


Edit: And what Raviel says, early game you simply have to rely a lot on constitution (Run back, recover health, go back in) until you get tanky enough (Usually means getting lucky with life leech rolls etc)

[Competizione]

I completed ultimate hardcore without too much trouble with this build. Also completed the Crucible on Challenger so far without issues (except for not being able to keep the x10 modifier all the way through).

http://grimcalc.com/build/zbGSLmc (base)

http://grimcalc.com/build/W7gu1lZ (with all boosts)

It's extremely gear dependent though and not the most tanky one around. Still it kills most things so fast that you shouldn't run into alot of trouble.

My gear gives +5 to nightblade, +1 to soldier and alot of +'s to individual skills

- Full deathmark set
- Belgothian's Carnage relic
- Badge of Mastery
- Grasp of Unchained Might
- Bladebreaker Sash
- Peerless Eye of Beronath
- Belgothian Sigil
- Amarastan Sigil
- Pretty Great Pants
- Windshear Greaves

Put a Shard of Beronath on your main weapon for Beronath's Fury (LMB), put your Blind Fury proc on that and you're pretty much spamming Blind Fury. Put Haunted Steel on your other weapon for Bloodthirster (map it to an easy key). Put Pneumatic Burst to your RMB, it's pretty much the only thing keeping you alive, so spam it as much as you can. Map shadow strike and circle of steel to other easy buttons. I've put Blades of Wrath on Whirling Death since it's best to use if you're surrounded, Bull Rush on Amarasta's Quick Cut and Assassin's Mark on Belgothian's Shears. I don't use Blade Spirit because on paper it sounds good, but in practice it doesn't do enough damage. Dump whatever points you have in the end in Circle of Slaughter. The damage mitigation the Ring of Steel skill gives is huge. If you want more survivability, swap out the rings for lifegiver signets.

Make sure you at least join Kymon's Chosen once for the Kymon's Will augment which has a similar effect to War Cry. Survivor's Ingenuity will give you a big boost to your dps. Apart from that, add augments and components to round out your resistances. Oh and you'll need at least one Arcane Spark component so you don't run out of energy all the time.

[Gosha92]

İlk olarak Competizione tarafından gönderildi:

I completed ultimate hardcore without too much trouble with this build. Also completed the Crucible on Challenger so far without issues (except for not being able to keep the x10 modifier all the way through).

http://grimcalc.com/build/zbGSLmc (base)

http://grimcalc.com/build/W7gu1lZ (with all boosts)

It's extremely gear dependent though and not the most tanky one around. Still it kills most things so fast that you shouldn't run into alot of trouble. My gear gives +5 to nightblade, +1 to soldier and alot of +'s to individual skills

- Full deathmark set
- Belgothian's Carnage relic
- Badge of Mastery
- Grasp of Unchained Might
- Bladebreaker Sash
- Peerless Eye of Beronath
- Belgothian Sigil
- Amarastan Sigil
- Pretty Great Pants
- Windshear Greaves

Put a Shard of Beronath on your main weapon for Beronath's Fury (LMB), put your Blind Fury proc on that and you're pretty much spamming Blind Fury. Put Haunted Steel on your other weapon for Bloodthirster (map it to an easy key). Put Pneumatic Burst to your RMB, it's pretty much the only thing keeping you alive, so spam it as much as you can. Map shadow strike and circle of steel to other easy buttons. I've put Blades of Wrath on Whirling Death since it's best to use if you're surrounded, Bull Rush on Amarasta's Quick Cut and Assassin's Mark on Belgothian's Shears. I don't use Blade Spirit because on paper it sounds good, but in practice it doesn't do enough damage. Dump whatever points you have in the end in Circle of Slaughter. The damage mitigation the Ring of Steel skill gives is huge.

Make sure you at least join Kymon's Chosen once for the Kymon's Will augment which has a similar effect to War Cry. Survivor's Ingenuity will give you a big boost to your dps. Apart from that, add augments and components to round out your resistances. Oh and you'll need at least one Arcane Spark component so you don't run out of energy all the time.

I'm interested in your build,but sadly its for 85 lvl,can you tell me what you had at lvl 50?

[Gosha92]

thanks for the help by the way

[Competizione]

At level 50? Most likely a skeleton build.

http://grimcalc.com/build/r6aHosB

It probably looked like that.

[AH-1 Cobra]

I made it to Ultimate with a Blademaster as my first character, and I agree that its not the best class to start as, and its not really that easy to gear for either.

[Breathing Shadow]

Blademaster was my first char, too. I had a hard time playing it, especially the transition from elite to ultimate and I was forced to grind/farm on elite for a long time to get a decent start on the last difficulty. But it was totally worth it. If you are patient enough and keep biting through, you'll be extremely rewarded once you get your hands on the drops you want to have.
Especially with every drop of a Deathmarked Set piece.
Keep on leveling and farming and I wish you best luck with all the precious loot on your way!

[Jet Uppercut]

General idea is to not just rely on defensive stats, but rather to use the more defensive skills you have on offer as a Blademaster. War Cry, Circle of Slaughter and Veil of Shadow all reduce the damge potential of enemies around you. Behemoth and Chariot of the Dead offer very powerful restorative skills, along with Pneumatic Burst. You can be very tanky without having to stack tons of HP and Armor.

[turbodevil]

Blademasters suck :P

I know, I know, there are insanely strong builds with BiS gear etc, lots of people have fun playing them and so on.

But soldier/Nightblade classes clash with each other on so many levels.

- Little overlapping between damage types.
- Shield focused vs dual wield focused
- Both have mobility skill, which is redundant
- You swim in weapon pool skills, again it is redundant, little gain in adding yet another WPS
- Cadence = the only auto attack replacer that discourages using weapon pool skills, which is cool part of dual wielding blademasters

What's left is playable but seriously, I struggled so much with this class trying to squeeze any versatily out of it. IMO Commando, Warder, Saboteur and Trickster have better options for phys/pierce/bleed/trauma builds simply because you can experiment with different setups.