Perfect Strike and Shred imo, would really enable the Blazing Piety crit build for Relic BLade thats super fun to play with the Heavy Evisc
Thatâs literally the only thing keeping other weapons in the running, and mobility for some options (definitely not thunderhammer). Powering the sword is already like double damage, tons of rending, tons of cleave and impact which zealot canât really access anywhere else (without nodes placed and their conditions met or not at all in the case of rending). Also youâll notice they kept crit blessings mostly away from power swords by design. Since their finesse damage is so great. Skitarius gets some but they have even less melee sustain than a veteran, so thatâs fine to me. I think relic blade and power sword 6 are still better than even buffed mechanicus sword.
Basically what Iâm trying to say is relic blade is already really good and having pretty pedestrian blessings was the attempt to make it not a silver bullet in game. Evis has crit blessings and mobility and a little better no power button performance, but the special on the relic blade blows it out of the water totally. Let it keep that, at least until they rework it (please its so dated in âhereâs 75 ragers and other elites and also some bossesâ tide).
Not sure that the best zealot weapon needs thatâŚ
There are so many other weak options to look at.
Blaze away and inspiring barrage
nah definitely doesnât âneedâ it before others, just part of a longer wishlist of new blessings for all weapons
Shred cannot be part of the relic blade blessing pool. Too strong for the weapon. And thatâs exactly why I take blazing piety with this weapon. If Shred was part of the blessing pool, I would use Martyrdom.
Perfect strike would be good, even if I must say that every time I use it, I feel it disappointing.
Now now, letâs not meme too hard. It can have Thunderstrike and No Guts, no Glory.
Relic blade not getting crit blessings on the original crit class (oh how the times have changed) to not make it a must pick sounds extremely delusional when the FGS gets both of them.
Naaah donât touch RB. Itâs very strong as it is. Little touch and this will fall like a house of cards. Sweat lords will start crying OP and masses watching mr ick will make devs stomp it to the ground.
Hypothetically - considering RB is already plenty good with its current pool - from the current blessing pool, Iâd give it Unstoppable Force and Bash.
- UF has a âhiddenâ property of making all heavy attacks ignore the property that Carapace has, which effectively allows weapons that have it - and have appropriate cleave value to hit something else - cleave it and not have the attack be stopped. With how good the current blessing poll is, this would allow Relic blade to spec more into crowd clear via its heavy attacks, but having to give up one of the strong blessing picks such as Rampage (melee power - cleave, damage, stagger) or Cranial Grounding (activated uptime and finesse damage) or Wrath (relatively quick-to-stack cleave enhancer), or Overload (activated uptime), in order to be paired with UF, which seems a fair exchange for having universally good cleave into anything Carapace - frequently melee elites or having more leisure against vanguards,
- Relic blade doesnât have a dedicated crit blessing, and both variants use push attacks to some extent for clear and making space, so rewarding a player for using stamina to do that seems sensible, especially since Bash doesnât have a good uptime. So to get good value out of it, pushes or push attack follow-ups would have to be performed frequently in order to maintain the buff.
There was no crit identity to Zealot before patch 13, and just as much crit identity between veteran/zealot/psyker after. And yeah psyker toys should be brought down hugely, FGS steals from using even normal force swords on psyker. Not really a great argument to point out its broken as hell and also has very strong blessings. Thatâs psyker in a nutshell.
What are you on mate, zealot was THE crit class pre13, as in, the guy you used finesse weapons with crit blessings on.
Yeah you could run a crit build for 16% crit chance, taking 3/6 perks. Veteran had 10% with 6 perks to place freely, were they a crit character? Probably more of a crit character if this is the criterion.
Nah mate zealot always had scourge and enduring faith. That 30% crit chance, bleed on crit and 50% TDR on crit.
He got a point with zealot was the crit class.
Letâs just give it either Headtaker (Heavy Sword version), Slaughterer, Thrust or Sunderer to make it absolutely broken.
I keep running into zealots who try to use Scourge, Invocation of Death and Enduring Faith alone with Relic blade builds, so maybe this is a âsolutionâ.
Wdym, scourge is free 30% crit! /s
Sure, but first you have to trigger it with base crit chance of 5%, and people use it with Chorus, not just FotF. I cannot imagine uptime on that CDR and other benefits are good. Also Relic blade has pretty high one shot ratio as it is, so building Scourge stacks and maintaining them even with FotF is a questionable proposition to me. If you go for the Piety keystoneâŚmaybe, but even then itâs not that optimal.
/s stand for sarscasmâŚ
Scourge is utterly fkin pointless on relic sword.
Ah I totally missed that â/sâ