Talk:Exalted Blade/@comment-99.101.85.203-20170222084802/@comment-64.231.92.192-20170607221758

The ingrained habit for normal melee fighting (using spin attacks to attack in a radius while also maintaining mobility in combat) is now punished with extra energy costs during an energy drain ability where you're supposed to be in melee fighting mode almost all the time.

This is worse than just removing the auto-blind from the exalted blade ability because, rather than just being a neat little bonus like when exaulted blade first came out, it's something that players have to step carefully around, lest they run out of energy much faster than they anticipated.

The player never loses the ability to cast the regular blind skill, so having a mini-blind in exalted blade is superfluous. For reasons stated earlier, having the mini-blind bound to buttons that players are likely used to using every time they use melee, it's certainly going to be set off unintentionally much more often than intentionally.