Talk:Blade Storm/@comment-45.56.21.42-20161128084128

I actually loved ash primarily for his teleport with augment for a ridiculous high dmg finisher kill/assasination. Shuriken has strength sure, but ash is all single target now, cause in the end bladestorm cant even be called are of effect because oyu have to single out every freaking enemy before hand. Which makes him quite inoperable against large mobs or at hitting enemies behind any type of cover in hiding (since none of his moves now can do dmg or target at all wihtout line of sight)

BS was OP I don't deny that, but so too are certain excaliber moves, valkyr moves, even nekros moves when built right. And this nerf did in fact F up anyone who built heavily into a BS build. Many things in this game are OP (Mirage simulor anyone?)

My main use for BS was as in the "OH $#!^"moments where im about to die, thus press to take a breather and regain sheilds (could even therefore avoid infested poison effects) Now with the targeting invisibiility cant save you from those AOE poison bursts so Ash lost all his defensive skill essentially except for Invisibility, which by the way LOKI is still better at.... I mean really ash is too similar to loki now reluying on invisibility, without some of the loki awesomeness..

Also energy cost is High which is unfortunate.

BIggest complaint tho... Is they didn't even fix the issue they addressed................................You still in the end if perfomed right just sit there and watch him dance without interaction.........................Thats freaking stupid. The main change that could have been done was an involved timing press of e (like a melee) to jump from target to target to make the BS continue. Therefore only people who were interacting and able to get timing down with skill could prolong the BS into an effective attack. But really the biggest problem with it now is its too similar to teleport.

In the end the nerf just made ash exceedingly niche. He is now a single target invisibility type. Before ash could be invisibility focused, or DMG focused, or even Defense focused, or MOB destroying focused. Now he pretty much cant to anything other than rely on invisibility and dmg.