Bleeding Willow Vs. Shimmering Blight

[KoreaNinja]

I want to know what's better for Orthos Prime. I DO NOT care about matching polarity.

[Psychosist]

As far as I know, Bleeding Willow is better than Shimmering Blight because its combos are longer, allowing for more crowd control. Shimmering Blight is just a watered-down copy of Bleeding Willow last I heard.

[Jiminez_Burial]

I personally prefer bleeding willow.  The jump allows me to make use of the range as well as sometimes granting headshots.

[deth_monkey69]

I prefer bleeding willow, even the quick melee combo is very good.

[Naftal]

I like both their animations myself so I suggest you try them both too and decide yourself.

[LunarWind]

I prefer Shimmering Blight purely for the animations.

 

When I used Bleeding Willow, it seemed to be straight up better in effectiveness.

Better damage, better range, more stagger immunity.

But something about the way it looks just bothered me, so I stuck with Shimmering.

[Niennah]

Bleeding Willow's first hit in all combos is a point blank slash that locks you in place for about a second. If that doesn't bother you, go for it. Otherwise, stick with Shimmering Blight for freedom of movement.

Edited May 25, 2014 by Niennah

[Archistopheles]

If you trust the Wiki, Bleeding willow's combos use 10% less stamina, so I believe it's designed to be better.

[Wallace24]

It's possible that shimmering blight's combo can increase your combo meter faster. but it's fairly limited in range, since bleeding willow's combo has a lot of dashing forward

 

I prefer bleeding willow's 4-hit quick/simple combo to shimmering blight's 3-hit one. the animation just looks better, and I think bleeding willow hits a wider swath of enemies around you

 

I didn't even change the stance polarity on my orthos prime. a catalyst and maybe 1 forma (possibly 2, can't remember) is more than enough