Ash Bladestorm weapon

[Kiyusuke]

Hi ALL,

 

So I got my Ash Prime yesterday and will do the bladestorm build. Now, I need some help with my melee weapon. What's the fastest weapon that I can equip for bladestorm and what should be the stance and mods? Thanks in advance :)

[AnTama]

7 minutes ago, Kiyusuke said:

Hi ALL,

 

So I got my Ash Prime yesterday and will do the bladestorm build. Now, I need some help with my melee weapon. What's the fastest weapon that I can equip for bladestorm and what should be the stance and mods? Thanks in advance :)

Melee it self have nothing to do with BS, BS have their own melee

the only benefit equiping your melee are their mods, and only 4 mods affect it (Fury, spoiled strike, Quickening, Body Count)

http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Blade_Storm

[(PSN)COGSPARTAN117]

Bladestorm isn't affected by your melee weapon. Only attack speed mods, the Steel Charge aura mod, the melee combo counter, and power strength affect Bladestorm.

EDIT: And of course power range, also.

Edited March 30, 2016 by (PS4)COGSPARTAN117

[Kiyusuke]

Alright then. Was just confused because I've been reading some forums about melee speed affecting the BS.

what about stance?

thanks @AnTama @(PS4)COGSPARTAN117 

 

[Dreddeth]

Bladestorm animation speed is only affected by Spoiled Strike and Fury. Spoiled Strike would slow the animations down, while Fury would speed them up.

Since you ought to put Fury on all non-crit melee weapons you have, and since Ash's Teleport can open enemies up to finishers, you might want to look into either a Dagger with a Covert Lethality mod on it (which makes Stealth and Counter Finishers an automatic kill) or one of the Hammer weapons (which have the highest Finisher Damage multiplier, and thus are the next best thing.).

However, if it's specifically Bladestorm you want to boost, you might want a weapon with lots of multi-hit strikes and/or wide swings in its stance combos since Bladestorm increases in power with the melee combo counter. Whip, Blade and Whip, Staff, Heavy Blade, Hammer, Pole-Arm, Fist, and Dual Sword weapons all can rack up combo multipliers fairly quick depending on the stance. I should warn you, though, that this is somewhat impractical without a Body Count mod to increase the timer's duration.

[Kiyusuke]

I've got all the mods now. It's just weapon that I need to find. So basically any type of dagger will do as long as there's covert lethality?

[WernerShadow]

Melee matters not just the mods on Ash that being said Ash can use the dark dagger(or others) with Covert legality to one shot almost anything using Teleport. also the dark dagger for me works better because of the red veils augment for free energy 

[Kiyusuke]

Gotcha :) now i just have to wait for dark dagger alert. BTW, is dark dagger blueprint tradeable? 

[(PSN)NeroRedgrave]

No, it's not tradeable.

[Kiyusuke]

thanks all for the help :)

[Lijka]

It is not.

Just emphasize: it does not matter if it's a dagger or any other weapon. Whatever you use, it's the mods that will influence your Bladestorm.

[Kiyusuke]

5 hours ago, WernerShadow said:

Melee matters not just the mods on Ash that being said Ash can use the dark dagger(or others) with Covert legality to one shot almost anything using Teleport. also the dark dagger for me works better because of the red veils augment for free energy 

BTW, what's the red veil augment for free energy?

[AnTama]

17 minutes ago, Kiyusuke said:

BTW, what's the red veil augment for free energy?

He mean Dark Dager Augment

http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Gleaming_Blight

every 1000 affinity earn while equipping/use that dagger it does Blight effect

http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Blight

every Blight give you 25% energy restore that's what he mean

 

If you want great energy recovery, get Zenurik Focus or bring Energy Recovery Pads (get the one from syndicate offering for 10xLarge Team recovery = 400 energy/pads)

Edited March 30, 2016 by AnTama

[Kiyusuke]

sweet! now everything's clear. will use heat dagger while waiting for dark dagger :)