Dragon age inquisition patch notes spirit blade

First, the attempted assassination of his cousin then himself. It wasn't the emperor's fault that the only times they met were under less than friendly circumstances. He was certain if the two just sat down to chat he'd be a decent enough guy. He knew he really shouldn't talk about the man that way. Emperor of the Empire and an all-around pain to deal with it. No, that honor went to his highness, Titus Mede. Of course, visiting at this particular time hadn't been his idea. At the very least, he would've brought some company. Sure, Atmora had always been on his places to visit since he was a kid but if he had known that absolutely nothing was out hereвЂ¦Well. He lived in the cold for most of his life and for so for something as menial as that to annoy him proved that he had been away from civilization for too long of a time. The sound of which annoyed him more than it should've.

If anybody has some actual test numbers for spirit blade I'd love to dig into it.As a huge blast of freezing wind from the blizzard hit his tent, Hardvak's sigh rose back to his face in the form of white smoke. If you prefer much high management for slightly higher pay off I think amplified blade still could have a higher single target dps (so dragons maybe, but then you cant deflect fireballs.). Not only do you occasionally send back arrows/ice spikes etc, but the shockwave you send from this counts as an auto attack I think (maybe stronger) meaning its elemental, adds to your barrier and counts as a stack towards your spirit blade AND has a chance to proc hidden blades which could be another 5 hits (25 stacks).Дefending blade seems to me like the best option for me. Then there's also the slight benefit of getting to deflect ranged projectiles without even timing it (of course if you're timing it you'll be utilizing the perk anyways), but you may notice you seem more durable with defending blade because of this. I also haven't confirmed this but I THINK the damage jump from 0-50 is much larger than the jump from 50-99, if this is true then defending blade is definitely going to be the way to go. When your constantly peppering your spirit blade with energy barrage/chain lightning/frost step/hidden blades, you cant still swing almost the whole time youre in range without dropping below 25 stacks, and most hits being 60+. Not being in melee range to use your spirit blade (fully charged with amplified) feels like more of a waste to use the rest of your rotation of spells. Also the damage is only for one target and sometime it doesnt connect so you HAVE to pay attention to either the numbers in screen and look for a 1-2k yellow number or check stacks occassionally to manage your spell rotation.

Swinging in a crowd three times is more natural and has higher dps than swinging once, spell casting (energy barrage or chain lightning) then spirit blade. The reason I think non-amplified blade is better is because management of the stacks is much more intuitive/natural to pull off, especially coming from the pre-charge playstyle. With amplified blade the same targets would be hit with 99, then 0, and 0, etc.ДЄlso with energy barrage (12 hits - or 24 with the mage greatsword), chain lightning (6 hits), and hidden blade masterwork (5 hits) recharging with defending blade is not a problem and seems to have more consistent and manageable damage output vs amplified blade.ДЇor reference: the default to max charge is 20 hits (5 charge per hit) and for amplified blade 10 hits (10 stacks per hit) The charges are consumed by enemies hit (not each time you swing), so hitting multiple enemies with default will hit the first target with 99, then 50, then 25 etc. But if this is true, then I think defending blade is the better option. My assumption was that the spirit blade damage was based on charges consumed not the charge level (meaning 99 stacks is 99 stacks worth of damage whether amplified blade or default) meaning that the only benefit of the amplified blade is the charging quicker aspect (which is closer to how the description reads, so that's understandable). I dont think this is true after some quick testing and I can't find confirmation online. My interpretation of Amplified Blade though was that it would effectively be doubling the power of the spirit at max stacks. I had read about the changes to spirit blade now having a charge, so that was expected. I played KE when this game released on last gen console and more recently bought the game on next gen and used black emporium to port my file.

Dragon age inquisition patch notes spirit blade