Lightning Blade Master

[Daliian]

Hello. I have a little question...

It's Lightning Blade Master worth to play? I saw just a few of blade masters with lightning builds.. It's fire better for pve? Fire have more dps?

[Riss77]

I advise you try F12 and see for yourself with your current gear.

[Stormpooper]

This question has been going around since the dawn of time and for some bizarre reason newbies keep re-asking it (along with a few others). There's plenty of information available, some here, some elsewhere on the Internet. Long story short:

Devs focused on fire build, abandoning lightning for a really long time and making it fall behind, so more and more BMs started switching to fire build. After some time, lightning started getting buffed again while fire received some nerfs. At this point, basically:

Lightning is ~same damage for more work.

Depends on your gear ofc.

[Incognito]

Lightning is the way! Just wait till we get the latest KR buffs!

[MidwinterCZ]

I personaly love both ways, sadly its really expensive to completly switch form one to another or maintain both :( as it was said before try F12. 

Lightning is more work for same dps. 

DPS wise its about same. When Ive tested it with no elemental gear I did 100k on fire and 90-95k on lightning and iam main flame so real lightning is on par imo.  

[dklm]

I suppose fire and lightning are the same in damage but when I tested the damage myself lightning did so much more about 70% more damage.

[lPhantomX]

On 4/2/2018 at 10:24 AM, dklm said:

I suppose fire and lightning are the same in damage but when I tested the damage myself lightning did so much more about 70% more damage.

Fire does more damage, you did something wrong there >_>

[dklm]

Here is the damage of dragontongue during one cycle of lunar slash:

https://imgur.com/MroErNh

 

Here is the damage of lightning blade + honed slash during one cycle of lunar slash:

https://imgur.com/VqTHCHN

 

Here is the damage of dragontongue during 10 seconds of conflagration after using searing slash with pulse mystic badge equipped:

https://imgur.com/5hCx2FD

rotation: searing slash > lunar slash > raid > blade echo > lunar slash

 

Here is the damage of lightning blade + honed slash during 10 seconds of lightning draw with skyrift mystic badge equipped:

https://imgur.com/Hv5lsUx

 

Gear used:

https://imgur.com/URogKhB

Raven stage 1, pinnacle accessories, awakened ascending soul

 

[Poroph]

Meow.