Ash Feedback.

[Nazrethim]

So, Blade Storm got changed again.

I have to say I was reluctant about the changes. But after trying them they seem to be okay. Not nutburstingly awesome, but they seem to be okay.

For starters the speed seems to have been increased, the clones apparently attack 3 to 5 dudes at the same time given enough marks are applied. The cutscene is made entirely optional which was a popular request. The cost has been reduced so it's back to Old Blade Storm levels if you are invisible (just for single marking, multimarking still makes no sense), which is kinda okay now. Marking reticle may need to be a bit bigger, but it's not much of an issue if you are well aware of where enemies are.

So overall Blade Storm is in a much better place right now.

 

Now it's a bit of a bummer no more changes were made, like making Smoke Shadow actually be affected by Range, Shuriken no longer picking invulnerable targets over vulnerable ones or Teleport having the automatic Finisher by default.

Another issue is Conclave. To sum up. His abilities are largely worthless there, providing little to no advantage.

Shuriken hits for half the damage of a single Kunai and the tracking simply doesn't work. At the very least the tracking should be restored and an Impair (2s) effect be added to it. Smoke Screen is too short at 4s and it's Augment has been useless since it was introduced. Buffing duration to 6-8s and increasing the Augments range from the impossibly short 3m to 8m would do. Teleport could use a 10m buff or making Ash get 100% evasion during it's cast animation. BS needs it's either it's damage buffed or, now that he isn't part of it, just skip the marking phase entirely (the ability is single target anyways) and go straight to the clone summoning. His passive is also very restricting, only working with Nikanas. It should work with all weapons with Slash damage in it.

Edited February 10, 2018 by Nazrethim

[Yonm]

Agree about Smoke Shadow. 5m no matter what is pretty useless. Teleport auto finisher though? Sry, but It's not that hard to tap E directly after and it's better to have the choice than to be forced into attacking when you might not want to.