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Assassin's Blade | ||||
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| Line | Assassination | ||||
| Line Rank | 20 | Cost | 2430 Magicka | ||
| Cast Time | Instant | Duration | – | ||
| Target | Enemy | ||||
| Range | 7 meters | ||||
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Killer's Blade Converts into a Stamina ability, deals Disease Damage, and now scales linearly based on missing Health rather than a flat value. Also heals you if the target dies within two seconds of use. |
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Impale Allows you to use the ability at range and increases the execute multiplier. |
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Notes
Values are based on Max Magicka/Stamina 12000, Max Health 16000, and Weapon/Spell Damage 1000.
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- Assassin's Blade: Thrust a magic blade with lethal precision to stab an enemy, dealing [3073 / 3106 / 3140 / 3174] Magic Damage. Deals 300% more damage to enemies below 25% Health.
- Killer's Blade: Cost: 2066 Stamina.
Thrust a caustic blade with lethal precision to stab an enemy, dealing 3176 Disease Damage. Deals up to 400% more damage to enemies with less than 50% Health. Heals you for [6351 / 6421 / 6491 / 6561] if the enemy dies within 2 seconds of being struck. - Impale: Range: [25 / 26 / 27 / 28] meters.
Throw a magic blade with lethal precision to strike an enemy, dealing 3176 Magic Damage. Deals 330% more damage to enemies below 25% Health.
Assassin's Blade deals Magic Damage, with increased damage to targets with low health. The Killer's Blade morph changes it to have a Stamina cost and deal ramping execute Disease Damage instead of a flat execute magic damage, also healing you if the target dies shortly after use. Or you can use the Impale morph, which allows it to be used at a distance.
NotesEdit
- Impale is a recommended morph for the Nightblade Initiate and Deathweaver builds, while Killer's Blade is recommended for Umbral Assassin.
GalleryEdit
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Killer's Blade morph disease visual
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Killer's Blade morph on-kill heal visual
Patch NotesEdit
- This ability's visual effects are now easier to see.
- Killer's Blade: This morph now deals Disease Damage instead of Magic Damage.
- Impale: Increased the range of this morph to 28 meters at Rank IV from 18 meters.
- Developer Comments: Increasing the range on this morph to 28 meters matches the range of other Magicka Nightblade damage abilities such as Strife or Cripple, and makes this morph work cohesively with a ranged ability kit.
- The bonus damage dealt by execute abilities, such as Assassin's Blade or Reverse Slash, now works more intuitively with global damage done bonuses, such as Mighty or Minor/Major Berserk. Execute bonus damage is now multiplicative with global damage bonuses instead of additive.
- The damage from this ability and its morphs can now be blocked and dodged.
- This ability and its morphs now deal their bonus execute damage when the target is below 25% Health, down from 26% Health.
- Increased the cost of this ability and its morphs by approximately 30%.
- Developer Comment: This execute was significantly cheaper than any other in the game, and was part of the reason that Nightblade DPS was higher than intended.
- Killer's Blade (morph): Fixed an issue where this ability could fail to be recognized as a class or execute ability in some rare cases.
- Killer's Blade (morph):
- This morph now causes the execute scaling to change to a linear increase of up to 400% damage done to targets under 50% Health, rather than the static 300% damage done to targets below 25% Health.
- The heal from this morph now scales off of your highest offensive stats, rather than Max Health.
- Impale (morph): This morph now also increases the execute scaling to 330%, up from 300%.