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That part of the video was actually untrue ashes blades storm is perhaps the most poorly worded ability in the game because there is an entire other side to the damage. The storm actually uses your male weapon and it’s equipped mods before the ability damage number applies. it’s an extremely convoluteddamage instance so I would recommend watching the KENGINEERS video on it

Why not indeed, if you prefer the extra crit there's nothing wrong with going with scope. But at Base (+120%) it will only bring your crit up from 130% to 161.2%, which is nice but not worth at mod slot imo. At max stacked buff (+320%) it can bring you up to 213.2%, which is nice since it brings you into a higher crit range if you can keep the buff up but I prefer instead to gamble on that random 15% chance of elevating that I can get from the Vigilante set, that way I can also get the buffs of ammo conversion (the only other good exilus is stabiliser), multishot for extra damage, and fire rate or punch through to change how I focus on my targets. Either Fervor's fire rate makes it easier to focus down a single high value target or Offence to make it easier to take out crowds by using the punch through with the ammo efficiency. This weapon is so beautifully versatile that any setup can work though so give galvanised scope a shot and see what you prefer for your playstyle

It was delayed by the unfortunate circumstance of "editing is hard and I am lazy" lmao

@@Toxic_Rock I'm taking that as "I'm off the hook" then XD

@@DC-zz4km Buddy the only thing I'm hooked on is my monstrous pile of blow XD

After testing further, it looks like Arcane Fury doesn't even affect Blade Storm anymore. Your melee weapon also doesn't affect Blade Storm at all now, no matter what mods you have on it. I've tried faction mods, finisher mods, different weapons with and without mods, etc. The animation speed of Blade Storm is not affected by attack speed anymore either, and neither does sliding during casting make the Blade Storm animation faster. Arcane Trickery does not proc off Blade Storm at all, unless my luck is ungodly and it just didn't roll the 15% off 5+ waves of enemies in Simulacrum. It looks like they made Blade Storm count entirely as just an ability. It no longer procs melee or finisher conditionals off anything. The Skiajati Unique Perk also does not proc off Blade Storm. Arcane Arachne doesn't affect Blade Storm damage for some reason either. Putting Natural Talent on Ash for some extra casting speed only sped up his animation by 2 seconds (from 19 seconds). All this was tested against level 150 Steel Path Orokin in the Simulacrum. One unique Blade Storm interaction I noticed, though I don't know if this is old news or not, is that if you select enemies with Blade Storm (before activating it), it takes the energy cost away from you before you even re-activate the ability to start Blade Storm. If you're invisible and then select enemies, even if you're visible when you re-activate the ability, it'll still only be half the energy cost it would be if you were to be visible when you selected the enemies with Blade Storm. Similarly, if you're visible and select enemies, and then go invisible and re-activate Blade Storm, it'll still take the full regular energy cost from you per enemy selected. Molt Reconstruct also does nothing with Blade Storm. Edits: Steel Charge still works apparently. It's worth noting that while Blade Storm does not receive the affects of Arcane Fury or Arcane Strike, it activates both of them when it damages an enemy. More testing: Seemingly no matter what arcane it is, it does not work affect Blade Storm's damage or speed. I have not tested with abilities or arcanes that affect allies such as the Theorem Arcanes. Combat Discipline does not proc from Blade Storm kills, but it does proc if the enemies die from the preliminary slash ticks left after the animation ends. Blade Storm does not activate Arcane Reaper. Edits again: ARCANE BLADE CHARGER STILL WORKS?!?! With 258% strength and nothing else, I was getting initial procs for 8256 and secondary slash procs for 3612. With Arcane Blade Charger active at R0, it was boosting my damage to 10836 on the initial and 4741 on the secondary. This is now the only thing besides Steel Charge I have found to boost Blade Storm damage besides Strength/Strength boosting abilities (Roar/Madurai).

I thought I was going crazy when I was not going invis off of arcane trickery anymore thank god I at least know now 😭

@@ma-shin They have it listed as an issue they're investigating on the forums after some bug reports to them about it. Hopefully they fix it and not all of this was intentional...

@ma-shin I think its fucking annoying and a stupid nerf to a frame that has already fallen by the wayside compared to modern frames kit, I noticed it myself when trying to get footage for the next video. Skiajati never used to work since it doesn't consider your melee weapon, but I'm fairly certain this was caused by decoupling Slash Procs from True damage which seems to have made it no longer count as a finisher. Hopefully​ @IsaiahOlsonCursedNoven is right about it being a known issue that gets fixed, cos I have another video sat waiting with some fun tech that build off this Ash setup and its on hold until we get some kind of confirmation either way, or I may have to rewrite & re-record it. EDIT: Just looked on the known issues forum page and ya boi @IsaiahOlsonCursedNoven is on point, its being investigated and hopefully should be fixed next patch, which is also hopefully before my next video is done.

@@Toxic_Rock for real if literally any of this is intentional it sucks when Ash isn’t even the best frame at all anymore like you say. I just invested in his prime pre patch and was having a blast building around his 4. Even if they revert all the changes (if it’s truly all bugs), I’m still worried how his true damage will do since they nerfed every armor and buffed raw hp. Like that is an indirect nerf on its own but hopefully if things are fixed/reverted it’ll be enough to make his 4 good again