level 17, thinking of switching to blade

[monkeymadnes]

ive got level 14 glavie and 14 lightning, but from what i hear, im thinking switching to sword/lightning. Im pure str, and the only skills ive added are the wolfbite, the demon spear, and the level 14 one whos name escapes me at the moment. If I do switch, what skills in bachion should i add?

[Geobot]

for blade, the chain series is nice. also, i hear that at really high levels the knockdown skills are great too. i don't use any of the other ones(besides the passive), so can't say much about them.

[monkeymadnes]

but in your opinion, should i change? i mean, i found a couple of weapon elexirs on the ground so i have cash to buy weapons and stuff, so cash isnt a prob for me, but im thinking that maby it might be sort of dumb to switch to sword now. i dunno, tell me what you think

[enisul]

If your serious about switching to blade, do it at 60. Blade takes too long to lv so lv the glaive, just get soul and ghost to lv then when you become lv 60 reset it all to blade. glaives can creep almost double the speed of blade.

[Geobot]

i switched at level 15ish, and love it, so if you're asking my opinion, go for it. but really it's up to you. i haven't run into any problems with SP or anything, so don't worry about that if it's all that's stopping you.

people say blade levels slow, but i don't see that so much, so eh. i certainly can't see it being double the speed with a glaive. i kill stuff just fine, so i don't know where this comes from. from what i can see, the DPS is almost the same, since blades hit so much faster.

[monkeymadnes]

Thank you SOOOOO very much! switching the next time i get on! (probably tomorrow morning or afternoon, day after if im unlucky)

[ShizKnight]

Well, I'm a Glavier. It's terrific. I love it. I heard from some lvl 40+ Blade people that it gets VEEERY boring, because when grinding, all you really have is the Chain series. However, we got Soul-Spear, Chain-spear, and Ghost-petal. Also, Glavie has higher damage.

[Geobot]

yea, but the chain series is 5 different skills, and you can also use the knockdown skills, which can do some nice damage themselves. so it's not like there's only 2 skills.

nobody ever talks about the sword dance series tho, and i don't have it either. maybe i should get it just to try it out, since i've never heard anything good or bad about it. i mean, people talk like it doesn't exist or something... anybody have any experience with it?

[ShizKnight]

Low, low, low, low damage. Good AOE though. And, usually, people don't waste their mana on knockdown on regular mobs, only giants. BTW, Heuksal's 4 and 5 chains are before Heaven and Ascension and do better damage. Wheeee, Heuksal!!!

[Geobot]

hmm, thanks for the sword dance info.

as for knockdown, yea, i normally only use it on bigger stuff, champs at the very least. but i mean, you don't use every spear skill on every mob, do you?

as for the spear chains vs blade chains:

blade:

lvl 7 : 18-22(67%) x3
lvl 29 : 71-86(61%) x4
lvl 29 : 71-86(68%) x5
lvl 51 : 176-215(76%) x4
LVL 51 : 176-215(92%) x5

glaive:

lvl 24 : 67-86(91%) x3
lvl 47 : 184-236(57%) x4
lvl 47 : 184-236(78%) x5

so yea, the glaive skills you can get before the more equivalent blade ones, about 4-5 levels. but you get 2 options for the lvl 2x ones, instead of just one, and it's only 3 hits for glaive instead of 4 or 5 like the blade's.

but if you look at the numbers, yea, the glaivers have more base damage, but the % is much higher for the blade's skills, and that canmake a nice little diff. yea, the glaivers will hit for more overall, but that's because a glaive has higher base damage.

it's a playstyle thing i guess, and that's all it really comes down to. i guess i just like my shield too much to give it up for some little bit more damage ^^

[cgy]

Yeah blade is awesome. Especially if you get a shield with a good blocking ratio. In PvP you block a hit or two and start making combos, it can get dangerous