Energy Blade Breakdown

I think I have a pretty firm grasp as to how this is going to work (I'm willing to bet a sizable amount of money too). And the following is the basic takeaway and other points of consideration.

General Mechanics:

-- This will transform your weapon such that it's base damage will now be what the tool tip describes AFTER THE BUFF IS APPLIED, it will change it's type to SWORD, it will lose it's mods, but will retain its sockets.

-- This most likely will NOT SNAPSHOT, as if it did, it would create too great an opportunity to exploit.

-- Support will most likely be limited to Enhance, Empower and anything that globally increases the level of Lightning Skill Gems (similar to Arcane Cloak).

-- Of course it would be safe to assume that passives on the skill tree will not affect how the base weapon damage of Energy Blade is calculated, otherwise you create double dipping potential. That said, going forward we should assume the only thing that affects the resulting base weapon damage of Energy Blade is the minimum and maximum ES values AFTER THE BUFF IS APPLIED, alternatives would yield BROKEN base weapon damage.

In short, this skill CREATES A WEAPON. Use this if you're willing to trade your current weapon and its mods for a sword with potentially insane base weapon damage at the cost of ES defense.

Once the weapon materializes in your hand(s), hit and damage calculations are the same as with any other weapon with any other skill gem when used in an attack, taking into consideration Sword and other passives taken on the Skill Tree.

Hit based elemental attack builds are the focus with this skill.

Inquisitor and Trickster immediately come to mind.

Lingering Questions:

How will this scale with rank?

I will update this if and when pertinent information and suggestions surface.

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Jesayntly wrote:

I think I have a pretty firm grasp as to how this is going to work (I'm willing to bet a sizable amount of money too). And the following is the basic takeaway and other points of consideration.

General Mechanics:

-- This will transform your weapon such that it's base damage will now be what the tool tip describes AFTER THE BUFF IS APPLIED, it will change it's type to SWORD, it will lose it's mods, but will retain its sockets.

-- This most likely will NOT SNAPSHOT, as if it did, it would create too great an opportunity to exploit.

-- Support will most likely be limited to Enhance, Empower and anything that globally increases the level of Lightning Skill Gems (similar to Arcane Cloak).

-- Of course it would be safe to assume that passives on the skill tree will not affect how the base weapon damage of Energy Blade is calculated, otherwise you create double dipping potential. I need to stress that the only thing that affects the resulting base weapon damage of Energy Blade is the minimum and maximum ES values AFTER THE BUFF IS APPLIED, alternatives would yield BROKEN base weapon damage.

In short, use this if you're willing to trade your current weapon and its mods for a sword with potentially insane base weapon damage at the cost of ES defense.

Once the weapon materializes in your hand(s), attack damage calculations are the same as with any other weapon with any other skill gem.

Hit based elemental attack builds are the focus with this skill.

Inquisitor and Trickster immediately come to mind.

Lingering Questions:

How will this scale with rank?

I will update this if and when pertinent information and suggestions surface.

It transforms into a sword type.
So sword passives work on it? If not how do you deal with accuracy rating, crit , aps and so on.
Having 50% hitchance is not so nice ,as well as low aps or crit.
There are not much general dmg nodes on the tree.

I assume resolute Technique may be a solution to deal with accuracy but seems like a bandaid if its the only way.

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gandhar0 wrote:

It transforms into a sword type.
So sword passives work on it? If not how do you deal with accuracy rating, crit , aps and so on.
Having 50% hitchance is not so nice ,as well as low aps or crit.
There are not much general dmg nodes on the tree.

I assume resolute Technique may be a solution to deal with accuracy but seems like a bandaid if its the only way.

This has the potential to be very confusing but I'll do my best.

Sword (or any other) passives will not affect how the Energy Blade skill gem calculates the Energy Blade's (weapon) base weapon damage when it's created.

They will, as normal, affect any attacks made with the weapon since the weapon's type is "sword".

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Jesayntly wrote:

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gandhar0 wrote:

It transforms into a sword type.
So sword passives work on it? If not how do you deal with accuracy rating, crit , aps and so on.
Having 50% hitchance is not so nice ,as well as low aps or crit.
There are not much general dmg nodes on the tree.

I assume resolute Technique may be a solution to deal with accuracy but seems like a bandaid if its the only way.

This has the potential to be very confusing but I'll do my best.

Sword (or any other) passives will not affect how the Energy Blade skill gem calculates the Energy Blade's (weapon) base weapon damage when it's created.

They will, as normal, affect any attacks made with the weapon since the weapon's type is "sword".

I also was not clear. I didn't meant the flat damage.
From what is known the buff is based of a % of your actual ES. Case closed here we dont need to talk much further about it.

What i'm more interested to know ,when using attacks how do you deal with accuracy crit and aps.

I mean you can possible have some nice flat damage but if you have slow attack speed, low crit and bad hitchance it will not feel great?

Do you understand what i mean? Sry it wasnt clear at first.

edit:

If energy blade ,while transformed, is the equivalent of undefined/ no weapon type instead of sword, attack speed , crit and accuracy could be only increased with general nodes or buffs but they are not as strong as specialized weapon nodes.

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gandhar0 wrote:

I also was not clear. I didn't meant the flat damage.
From what is known the buff is based of a % of your actual ES. Case closed here we dont need to talk much further about it.

What i'm more interested to know ,when using attacks how do you deal with accuracy crit and aps.

I mean you can possible have some nice flat damage but if you have slow attack speed, low crit and bad hitchance it will not feel great?

Do you understand what i mean? Sry it wasnt clear at first.

I totally get it. I just said what I did to prevent future misinterpretation by other readers.

As mentioned, hit and damage calculations for an attack made with your new weapon resolve as they normally would, being affected by passives.

Okay so Energy blade then counts as sword weapon type which is affected by the passive weapon nodes.

If that is the way it works, it may be an interesting league starter for me.

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gandhar0 wrote:

Okay so Energy blade then counts as sword weapon type which is affected by the passive weapon nodes.

If that is the way it works, it may be an interesting league starter for me.

That is what all the information given so far tells us.

That said, yeah, there's definitely some potential.

The big question is whether or not the potential for the highest base weapon damage in the game on a weapon is worth the tradeoff of losing all those potential mods, while at the same time sacrificing that much of your defense.

Tough to say.