Story time; rip energy blades

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OneTwoTimer wrote:

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Clyan wrote:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

It literally says that it will replace your weapon with a sword. Geez.

It says "transform", which is not to be confused with "replace". From the wording one has to expect the weapon to be "transformed" and therefor keeping its stats.

But whatever. I'm curious to see a reliable build using it.

Thank you!

Most likely anyone assumed our weapons were "enhanced" or "forged with lightning" by this buff, since it does say "transform" and not "replace".

But as Shags mistakenly quoted the gem, it actually would be better if the gem said "REPLACES your weapons (with a generic lightning based weapon template), which it literally does.

Saying "transforms" leaves too much room for missunderstandings, since transformers transform, and they are still the same mass and material, just their visual look and shape changes, giving them new abilities and functionality.

"Transmutes" your weapons into energy blades also would have been much clearer. Just bad choice in wording.

I mean if a spectral throw skill says "throws your weapon" nobody assumes you throw it once and you have to buy a new one because your hands are literally empty now? Just an example about how differently words can be interpreted.
I know all spectral skills say "throws a COPY of your weapon" so that removes any second guessing.

But yeah, if anyone is interested, now that I realised how it works, I redid my gear, all flat lightning dmg on jewelery, wake boots 1-120 dmg, focus on cutting aura costs, wrath, thunder herald, full ES gear (better so far, can't run disc yet), and at lvl 30 dualwielding 5k - 6k buffed dps. It's really good. And with 3dragon mask = all shocks = freeze.

I still have a big gripe with this skill though, literally deleting all stats on weapons. Huge loss of res, dual wielding aurumvox, all res dropped -120%.
Can you at least fix this and let us keep all stats, mods, buffs and perks from weapons? Or would this break dps if someone dualwielded some influenced 50-500 lightning dmg, +50% ele dmg turbo blades +999% crit shit?

It's confusing having to make a "both hands empty" build. You have to flip EB on and off to see your real stats.

Scale down total dmg on EB, enough to allow us to use weapons as stat/buff sticks if possible, would be a way better approach.
I mean sure it's nice to kill uber sirius with ....two lvl 1 white shanks? I guess?

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For example, can i use a sword, turn on EB and use double strike?

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double strike uses the weapons base dmg, so i suppose it will be lightning automatically...

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but it also has physical dmg against bleeding enemies. can i convert that dmg into lightning? probably not i suppose...

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also to get the extra dmg i need to get the enemies to bleed and on witch bleed isn't close on the passive tree anywhere. so i would use chance to bleed with it i think... is this even a viable idea?

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Solonafir wrote:

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For example, can i use a sword, turn on EB and use double strike?

Yes.

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double strike uses the weapons base dmg, so i suppose it will be lightning automatically...

Yes.

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but it also has physical dmg against bleeding enemies. can i convert that dmg into lightning? probably not i suppose...

With nodes from the tree or item, yes. Not inherently from EB + Double Strike.

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also to get the extra dmg i need to get the enemies to bleed and on witch bleed isn't close on the passive tree anywhere. so i would use chance to bleed with it i think... is this even a viable idea?

You'd need a second skill or added physical damage to actually inflict bleed with "EB Double Strike" because only physical damage can inflict bleeding (and since bleed damage is 70% (still) / 210% (moving) of the physical damage that caused it, the bleed damage would likely be close to negligible.

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Clyan wrote:

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Solonafir wrote:

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For example, can i use a sword, turn on EB and use double strike?

Yes.

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double strike uses the weapons base dmg, so i suppose it will be lightning automatically...

Yes.

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but it also has physical dmg against bleeding enemies. can i convert that dmg into lightning? probably not i suppose...

With nodes from the tree or item, yes. Not inherently from EB + Double Strike.

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also to get the extra dmg i need to get the enemies to bleed and on witch bleed isn't close on the passive tree anywhere. so i would use chance to bleed with it i think... is this even a viable idea?

You'd need a second skill or added physical damage to actually inflict bleed with "EB Double Strike" because only physical damage can inflict bleeding (and since bleed damage is 70% (still) / 210% (moving) of the physical damage that caused it, the bleed damage would likely be close to negligible.

Thanks.
Well I wouldn't care about the bleed dmg itself, but i could abuse it for increased dmg. For example I could get bloodletting via anoint. But yeah, it's just an idea. This will probably turn out to be a trash build like the last one i tried XD