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Blademaster
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Blademaster Description
Swords are the Blademaster's weapon of choice, whether single, dual-wielded, or even used as a throwing weapon. The class is limited in its use of other weapon types -- Blademasters can not use heavy firearms like the Hunters, just melee weapons and pistols. They can use shields, but have no special skills to augment their effectiveness like the Guardian class. Blademasters are killing machines, loaded with damage-boosting skills and abilities that make the class one of the most damaging in Hellgate: London. The balance is that Blademasters have few defensive skills and can not safely take on mobs of monsters. They must play with precision and intelligence, and use crowd control to thin out mobs and slaughter one or two monsters at a time, rather than trying to "tank" a dozen at once.
The danger with all of these skills is that the Blademaster is vulnerable while using them, and without life leech to keep refilling his health, he's got to balance killing speed with how much damage he's taking at the same time. Just how well the Surges can be used to heal and protect him while he's attacking remains to be seen, and will require experimentation. At low levels though, the Blademaster is vulnerable and less effective than the Guardian. Players trying out Blademasters were often using a shield and a sword early on, since even though he has no shield skills, he needed the added protection to keep from having to heal constantly. How big a problem this will be long term remains to be seen, but unless the Surges are potentially far more powerful than I expect, it seems unlikely that a Blademaster will ever want to just wade into a huge mob and try tanking it. He'll likely be more about movement and crowd control, and positioning the demons so he can take on a handful at a time and decimate them with his devastating "glass cannon" attacks.
--Flux, Mega Community Day Report, May 2007.
Starting Equipment
New Blademasters starts off with default cloth armor of no defensive value and are armed with a Scarab Shield and Broadsword.
Blademaster Skills
The Blademaster has the least amount of different skills of all the classes, 25 in total, but she makes them count! Some involve gaining Health from damaging demons, doing more damage when using skills, hitting enemies at a higher speed, making them weaker, hurting foes that hit her or using Auras to protect or improve herself. The skills are roughly divided into four Skill Groups: Swordsmanship, Surges, Auras, and Taunts. Skills in related groups are sometimes, but not necessarily connected by dependency lines and have each other as prerequisites.
- See the Blademaster Skills page for detailed information about the skills that belongs to the Blademaster Class, and the statistics.
- See the Skills page for general details about skills, such as skill caps, levels, synergies, level ups, and more.
- See the Templar Skills page for the evolution of the Templar's skills, and various unused Templar skills. More of a Beta progression article.
Skill Builds
This is the sections where you as a user can give suggestions to skill builds.
Blademaster Dual Wield by Pauluz
Sword of Reckoning level 10
Surge of Restoration level 10
Surge of Wrath level 3
Surge of Speed level 3
Surge Mastery level 7
Aura of Power level 10
Matched Blades level 7
The idea is heal regeneration by using Surge of Restoration and Power regeneration by using Aura of Power. Sword of Reckoning for bosses (no recharge time so you can spam this skill)
Blademaster Equipment
The Blademaster primarily uses Swords, and often one in each hand.
Further Reading
General Class Information
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