Im a little lost on where I can get spellblades and I general what I should be doing, I dont plan on save editing to get the items I just want to know what the best spellblade build is for early and late game and where I can aquire the items for each build.
Whats the best spellblade build and how do I get it?
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There are actually several different ways you can build your spellblade. The main difference is whether to use charge weapon or Blue Flame Blade.
Blue Flame Blade is more for crit focused thief builds and requires soulbinding to kitsune.
For my build, I main Chrysanthemum Petal/Wing of Asira and offhand Kunai
Focus Agility, Cunning, Willpower
Blue Flame Blade, Venom Strike, Whirlwind, Flames Within
Whiteblossom Ring
Eye for Weakness/Attrition Expert
Basically, you permacrit, gain obscurement every turn, and stack insane dot damage.
Blue Flame Blade is more for crit focused thief builds and requires soulbinding to kitsune.
For my build, I main Chrysanthemum Petal/Wing of Asira and offhand Kunai
Focus Agility, Cunning, Willpower
Blue Flame Blade, Venom Strike, Whirlwind, Flames Within
Whiteblossom Ring
Eye for Weakness/Attrition Expert
Basically, you permacrit, gain obscurement every turn, and stack insane dot damage.
Now that Eye for Weakness is fixed I think Blue Flame Blade is just the most powerful thing to be doing as a spellblade, and it's not even really close anymore unless you have some roleplay or other non-gameplay reason not to soulbind and/or bring Viv. The fox den is your convenient one stop shop for almost everything, as well. Rindo and Nakano have your Chrysanthemum Petal and Blue Flame Blade, Kohaku has your Kunai and Lucky Strike ring(s). Agility derived stats are increasingly replacable the higher you level, so I personally always go agility/cunning/willpower to start and then switch agility for strength at level 7+/ in Act 2, because
-damage from accuracy is marginal at high crit rates, and your crit rate is going to be very high
-evasion from agility is literally worthless when Juiced
-the initiative difference between full agility investment and none is made up by a single equipment slot (the reverse is not the case for strength)
For your non Blue Flame Blade abilities you pretty much have a few categories of thing you want covered
-a chunky single target weapon attack that applies a DoT (Venom Strike and the new Closing Storm are both great)
-a weapon attack that hits all enemies plus some upside (Whirlwind, Fury Strike, Deadly Shadow)
-a buff of some kind (Venom Strike can pull double duty here, Flames Within, Night Shroud)
The normal play pattern is buff if you act before Viv's turn 1 grease, your first action after the grease is your "hit everything" ability, and if there is anything left alive after that (rare, but happens) you hit it with your remaining single target button.
-damage from accuracy is marginal at high crit rates, and your crit rate is going to be very high
-evasion from agility is literally worthless when Juiced
-the initiative difference between full agility investment and none is made up by a single equipment slot (the reverse is not the case for strength)
For your non Blue Flame Blade abilities you pretty much have a few categories of thing you want covered
-a chunky single target weapon attack that applies a DoT (Venom Strike and the new Closing Storm are both great)
-a weapon attack that hits all enemies plus some upside (Whirlwind, Fury Strike, Deadly Shadow)
-a buff of some kind (Venom Strike can pull double duty here, Flames Within, Night Shroud)
The normal play pattern is buff if you act before Viv's turn 1 grease, your first action after the grease is your "hit everything" ability, and if there is anything left alive after that (rare, but happens) you hit it with your remaining single target button.
Grease is a spell. You can learn it from any Black Mage trainer, but you don't need to because Viv is going to cast it for you.
It was bugged. It didn't double the duration of resistance debuff effects; after the normal duration of the debuff, it would just fall off and be replaced by a placeholder buff that did nothing. This meant that you lost out on a significant amount of damage that you would otherwise get out of those debuffs, especially against enemies with multiple actions per turn (who would frequently drop the debuff before you could use it at all). This was recently fixed, so in addition to the two turn knockdown Viv now gives you 4 full turns of +50% damage on both the fire damage the Blue Flame Blade stance adds to all (primary) weapon hits and the DoT as well. It's a big buff to multi-turn DoTs that scale with elemental resistances (Blue Flame Blade, Ghostflame are even stronger with Grease, Closing Storm with Crackle Powder, etc)
If you don't mind me asking what item are you referring to here, I'm assuming it's The Fertile Girdle or was there another initiative item added recently?