Shadow Daggers Bladedancer Build Guide and 1.1 Update

[@zmollon]

Thank god for your loot filter.

[@scottx1415]

Having fun with it in early game, thanks! Zoom zoom

[@Blaze-vp6yn]

Up to what corruption did you playtest this? I'm back after a long break since 1.0 and here are my impressions at 750-900c farming: - I find damage to be a bigger issue than survivability. I only have a single 2lp smoke weaver and find a T7 crit multi katana to be a significant clear speed upgrade, compared to my second smoke weaver which is a 1lp T6 crit multi. I suspect a second 2lp or 3lp smoke weaver with crit multi + increased phys would be superior but no such luck so far. Note I'm also using a 120% 2lp hybrid hp + throw dmg liraka for the same reason, DoT damage sucks but not dying nowhere near enough to consider losing all that damage. - Single smoke weaver sufficient to avoid crits with 0 crit avoidance. Have not died a single time to crits. - I'm thinking of skipping T7 movespeed on boots, after playing everywhere between 100% and 200% movespeed with perma haste I don't see a benefit of going over 140-150% ms due to having to sacrifice too many things, plus making your character uncontrollably fast. I was thinking about maybe a T7 dex + hybrid health 2 lp razorfall, or even simple a sealed T5 haste exalted with T7 dex for maximizing damage for the reasons mentioned above (I have an insane necro resist ring and struggling to get a 2lp carcinization good enough to replace - as soon as I get that I'll try the T5 haste boots atleast). - I had some eye of reens stored that I wanted to try but never got around to. But sadly they suck because shadow daggers don't count as direct melee attack (to be honest no surprise there, I didn't read the tooltip carefully enough :)) therefore you only proc it via sync strike crits and that sucks, what a bummer :( Oh, another thing, what caused the change to prefer increased phys on the weapons over flat melee phys?

[@remnantwanderer]

I think if you have a lot of flat melee/throwing already, you would benefit more on increased damage affixes. You need to check your build in planner though to see which damage type you are lacking.

[@shabutie9598]

It asks for synchronized strike and shift to be 22 allocated points, and smoke bomb to be 24? It doesn't say in the build anywhere how to achieve these numbers.

[@McFluffinGaming]

@@shabutie9598 gear

[@shabutie9598]

@@McFluffinGaming Ah, I can't find where it shows what skill affixes are on the gear then

[@rezoken934]

I am at around 300 corruption right now, and as soon as I take the Explosive Blades, my damage significantly drops compared to maintaining the blade active and get more procs of Shadow Daggers.

[@MrSuvvri]

in the written guide from july they dont have exploding bladeso maybe they noticed it too

[@ForathBlack]

WHOA! Someone let of a McFluffin bomb in KZbin! Great to see you!

[@gabbaman18]

how far corruption you could go in this?

[@droczid2943]

I struggled a little bit with aberroth on my shadow dagger BM, I swapped out some points for explosive blades earlier and 1 shot it with no issues, seems like the dmg is way higher with it 👍

[@McFluffinGaming]

@@droczid2943 for single target it is, but it's slower clear until high corruption. This is discussed in the guide. Good job making the adjustment!

[@Ilusm1337]

Hi, can anyone help me understand how can we always crit?

[@McFluffinGaming]

@@Ilusm1337 Shadow Daggers have 100% crit chance

[@ledentuchristophe5078]

Hi ! And thanks for this awesome build ! I have a question thou... You say "Flat Melee/Throwing Damage: With 450% Added Damage Scaling from Shadow Daggers we can never have too much Flat Damage. Thanks to Shadow Daggers having both Melee and Throwing tags the Passive nodes Swift Assassin and Once will provide a double benefit. Try to get Melee Physical Damage on a Legendary Smoke Weaver to really boost your damage!" But, Porcupine's Wrath says it's no longer mélée... Am I missing something here ?

[@McFluffinGaming]

@@ledentuchristophe5078 porcupine's wrath alters the tag on Shadow Cascade. It has no effect on the Shadow Daggers subskill.

[@rezoken934]

@@McFluffinGaming Also, you mention in the video that % Increase Physical Damage is now better than Flat Damage Add, but in the scaling you still list Flat Damage Add as the top Damage Scale? Also your equipment on the daggers doesn't have Flat increase any more and instead uses %?

[@Bretson1O]

Any plans to work on something with the new Black Blade of Chaos? I really hope that unique is good enough to create a new competitive build.

[@McFluffinGaming]

Possibly, but it'll be a while before I can get to it. If I do, it'll be with two Penumbras which will, of course, make it a Shadow Dagger Build.

[@Bretson1O]

@@McFluffinGaming hell yeah that's exactly what I was thinking

[@helleiostv8574]

Is there a reason why affix for the levels to umbral blades, which also gives % throwing damage, is not considered. Does it not scale better than Throwing flat/-mana cost? Genuinely curious.

[@McFluffinGaming]

@@helleiostv8574 it does not since it doesnt scale the melee portion of the shadow dagger damage and we have no use for the extra skill points.

[@helleiostv8574]

@@McFluffinGaming Quick question regarding damage calculation for Shadow Daggers. Since the SD is tagged with Physical, Melee & Throwing, and Increase Physical DMG% increases Melee Physical% and Throwing Physical%, and SD double dips into both melee and throwing, does that mean any increase Phys DMG% is applied twice in the final damage calculation or is it only taking the higher value of the two?

[@korosiv9427]

Is the proc rate nerf on bladestorms enough to kill the trash clear speed?

[@McFluffinGaming]

Not at all, but it does slow it down in higher corruption, which is why I recommend a change at that point.

[@Toxophilix]

I would be interested to know what the effect of this nerf is expected to be.

[@kerazayah3027]

Great build, just a question, do i need to manually cast umbral blades ?

[@ryanm2628]

No, according to 9:55 (I had the same question)

[@renzoirons503]

You dont. I still equip it on my skillbar and manually use it sometimes tho, cause I feel its useful in some situations

[@nickreese7326]

IF I WANT TO RUN THE BURST OF AGONY SETUP. WHAT POINTS SHOULD I GIVE UP TO FIT THOSE POINTS, INTO MY 20 SKILL POINTS?

[@LovePeaceSnow]

I took a point out of the last freeze note, dusk shroud chance, and two out of size and duration of bladestorm, maybe 1 out of the flat throwing dmg (-4). Or you leave the agony at 3. I am at 700 corruption and works alright. Defo increased single target dmg but you can’t just run anymore and everything dies behind you. Don’t know if it’s ideal, correct me with better suggestion. Really got to get the legendary with plus throwing skills. Also just shifting through worked for until 500 maybe even 600 if you just want to rush the monolith. but I feel I am getting more favor killing more mobs.

[@geekouzlol]

Hello at which lvl can we do this buiild ? 50 ? or before great video

[@scottx1415]

I went like low 20's level, well worth it

[@geekouzlol]

@@scottx1415 nice ty for the answer !

[@DanyhzVideos]

You say Falconner is stronger but is in lower tiers both for speedfarming and pushing haha

[@McFluffinGaming]

Odd it shouldn't be. I'll check on that

[@vlad_D_mpout]

why crab?

[@doomzx8284]

There is a thing called "headset", you put it on and he whispers in your ear why crab, it's insane invention by humans trust me try it.

[@SedicusS]

Early loot filter pls ? :))

[@McFluffinGaming]

It's in the written guide

[@boxofpears2]

this build is terrible for late game

[@McFluffinGaming]

@@boxofpears2 That's incorrect. Reread the guide, check your gear and compare it to the stat goals because you're doing something wrong.

[@Blaze-vp6yn]

Wrong, this build scales very quickly. Pretty easy to reach up to 500c or so. Currently roughly at the gear level that the "end game" tab suggests (in some aspects falling short tbh) in the maxroll guide and can comfortably farm about 900c. I see no point to push further because bosses take far too long for no reason, plus due to how dodge works you will die a lot more frequently. Single target isn't the highest, but I'm killing Aberroth in 2m 45s. I have to test if explosive umbral improves that at all.