Blademaster's Role

frendlydaddy1 wrote: »

have you tried using smack its liek 18 meter range good for flying ppl ooh and dont forget poles farstrike 15 meter

Add Reckless Rush in there. Tele freeze with damage and will keep them from dropping to the ground immediately. Its also important to fight airborne opponents while airborne and grounded opponents on the ground.

Basic combat tactics, take out the medics first, then the dd's, then focus on the hardest to kill. We are crowd control and rarely kill, but alot of times if the target is squishy enough and doesn't take too long I'd rather just kill. Example of these are clerics, venos, psychic with their SoS or some other def skills in cd, and sins. I'd rather kill them now than have them attacking me, popping out of stealth on me, or healing something while I'm trying to kill it later.

Although there has been times in TW where I've been in a melee position stunlocking an archer or a hard to kill wizzy and had the "lets go" command. I stunned one more time and HPd away without killing them because its better to be supporting your squad than to be 1v1ing something else.

Usually we Bodhi in, RotP, HF, Highland Cleave, Fissure, RotP again, Leap back out and run away, depending on your gear. Once you light up an area with HF you can expect opponents to be dropping their aoes on you, so squishier BMs should get in, get the stun, get the HF, and get gone. Once I light up an area and use my aoes in TW I usually start looking on the hills for archers/wizzies coming in and tele at them or smack them.

My favorite targets are Clerics + Venos (Top priority) then Archers/Wizards/Psychics in that order if I'm forced to focus a single target, otherwise your best bet is to AoE stun a large group of people. Whirlwind is an excellent genie skill to hold multiple targets for a second until you're in range to AoE stun them.

Just remember not to get too far out of position, especially when you're being kited heavily. As a BM you may be needed at times to defend your own Cleric as well. There are many situations where an enemy cleric or veno will kite you so far out of position that it leaves your front line open and AA vulnerable. You just want to be aware of your positioning and where the rest of your squad is; no point in dropping an AoE stun and HF when your squad is no where to be found. Often times they can't assist you due to being attacked themselves.

George_Bush - Harshlands wrote: »

+1. Being a demon BM I love staying close to my teammates and spam demon bell.

My last question is if the enemy's cleric is healing in midair while everyone else is on the ground fighting, should the BM abandon what he's doing and fly up to attack the cleric (provided that he does not go too far from his teammates) or should he leave the job to the archers? I see archer is really the best class to kill clerics due to spirit blackhole.

It's particularly useful against a sparked and IGed sin to demon bell / buddha guard another squad member.

I tend to stay where the main action is because a good geared and competent cleric can kite a BM too well with Faith/badge + vac, plume shell, sleep etc. Reel in works to pull people down as well if you have your morai skills, as well as the barb Morai skill that prevents people from flying.

TheDan - Sanctuary wrote: »

My favorite targets are Clerics + Venos (Top priority) then Archers/Wizards/Psychics in that order if I'm forced to focus a single target, otherwise your best bet is to AoE stun a large group of people.

This.

Completely disregarding everything here already like a boss!

In TW, I am the leader of my factions TW defense squad. Of course there are multiple ways to defend in TW, but we'll talk about the turtling technique. This is pretty much when you just sit tight in front of or by (preferably in front) your towers in TW with people scouting, and you catch the enemy and kill them.

Take note, I am a rare breed...A sage BM.

Being sage I can stray in front of my group, making it so that I can get to the enemies before my enemies get to my DDs. The first thing I typically would do is run in there with a speed buff and maybe an anti-stun, depending on how things have been going, and use roar. I have been known to use Reckless Rush on the barb and then use roar, but it's not a favorable combo because Reckless Rush not only costs chi, but is great for better uses.

Once the enemy squad is stunned, I tab out, and if I get hit by a DD out of range, I automatically target them, naturally, and use Reel In. Just in case I fail I press tab to target someone who I know is close enough to me, and I begin to AoE, HF if I have the chi and have the go ahead from my DDs.

However, there is a little more to this. If things are going hard, and we have another BM in squad (usually we do) I have a different role. Many times, with me being in a not-so-OP faction, we get overwhelmed by "that damn r9 (insert class)". This changes things for me. Since, as Maelael once worded, BMs have a Swiss army knife of stuns freezes and seals (Sage BM get's a chance to seal on a decently spammable skill) my role becomes to play distraction. If this person is caught in with the initial stun, after HF and the harder hits, I quickly pull a fast one and use leap back and follow up with Reel In. This pulls the person from their main group by at the very least, 16 meters, but also provides for a sudden stun or silence to follow up. Then the rest of my squad takes out the other not-so-major threats, then we take out the big threat to us since he has less or no support.

Reel In is also great on cata barbs if you have a well coordinated plan. If the cata barb is running a wee bit fast and the cata is a tad far from the barb, stand as far as possible and use Reel In. I have made barbs lose their cata by doing this, afterwards, just keep a stunlock and the cata will break.

That's all I can think of at the moment, but I'm lacking caffeine in my blood for now

Zarkin_Baxil - Raging Tide wrote: »

Use p marrow and aps crystal, that's a bms job >.>


Eh I just felt like being a troll today.b:chuckle

Sometimes i do that, because there is no one left to kill on the field b:cry. Everyone is spawning behind the towers b:surrender.