Wait there's been a temple of death cult assassins that worship the emperor and me on my ship this whole time and no ones told me about it - ABELARD !!!!!!! Thanks for the video. Bladedancer seems like a great class and a fun addition to the game.
Only comment is about Acrobatic Artistry, this talent is INSANE. Its not just about returning to the place where you started the turn for defensive purposes, every time you return to a cell, you redo the action that was done on it, meaning Death From Above repeats on every single instance you used it, if its a single target or 2 tough guys close to eachother, you just dance around them 3-4 -5 times, and then use Acrobatic Artistry, aaaand you will do all the Death From Above's again. Absurdly strong right after using Death Waltz if you also have the 4+ Death from Above stacks, you can end up attacking 30 times lol. So far, NOTHING has survived it in hard.
When Slandered read the ability out, I was thinking wow that could be amazing. Then he said he wouldn't recommend just gets you back to your start position (paraphrasing) and I was like, wait wait wait, I think you have missed the whole re-do every death from above you did this turn part of the ability. That's ok we all make mistakes sometimes. Acrobatic Artistry seems really great and I imagine will be one of the two abilities picked by most people.
I love Owlcat studio! I wish they were working on a new Pathfinder game! I can dream I guess. I really don't know where they are headed now that they are not going to be making a new Pathfinder or Warhammer 40k game! Thanks for all of the great info regarding Rogue Trader's new DLC! I got it first thing the day it came out! Cant wait to play a new playthrough with the Blade dancer!
Or starfinder. If they can upgrade their graphics and incorporate voice for every line they would go next level and be a true competitor in the triple a scene
I’ve ran a priest deathworld blade dancer on unfair and I went with the masochist build, I had like 160% dodge with max traumas and managed to curb stomp aurora. Only issue is turn timers if you have broken legs
Love giving this one drukhari blades especially the dual djin blades, between death from above and acrobatic artistry she wipes the floor with most encounters.
It took me a while to understand the archetype. Thank you for the explanation. I don't have friends who play Rogue Trader, so build discussions are nonexistent for me.
First, great info. Thank you for sharing. Next, I'm 65 years old, and I bought my first PC in 1984, so I've played my fair share of games. These days, I'm more interested in the story than the mechanics/challenge so my first play throughs are generally on Story or Easy mode. Follow-up games are more of a completionist type at the higher difficulty levels. With the new DLC I began a new playthrough with the Blade Dancer. I love the class. With the Blade Dance and Death from Above skills, I can clear battlefields in one turn, pretty much solo. I can't believe I'm going to say this, but at least at the less difficult levels, the Blade Dancer is in need of a nerf. She is just way over powered.
Hey there - I had to respond to you! Lol, I am right behind you at 63 years old! Have been playing D&D since 79' and Video Games since 80'! Old timers rejoice!!! I am really into the story these days myself but I still do get excited with a great combat system and I really do like Rogue Traders combat!!!
Sounds like you are playing the game on story mode and finding it too easy. Not surprising as enemies have 80% less health, death from above would kill most enemies in one hit. Now you have experience with the game I would recommend you re-start and turn the difficulty up to daring and give yourself a challenge. Daring is the default difficulty and gives no bonuses or penalties. Try it , if it's too hard persevere. I think you will be pleasantly surprised, but if it's still too hard bump back to normal. Then if your still not having fun after that, go back to story mode, but I can't see that happening.
I think that they went for 2 types of blade dancers here. The base and most probably common I guess will be the agility one, which make sense.. but I wonder if you can make a full TOUGHNESS and have it be effective ( basically you switch agility for toughness ). There are enough talents that reward losing hp ( not only from attacks but from using your own abilities ), getting attacked and parrying and such, and the toughness bonus from getting healed doesn't have a cap. So essentially you can keep using your powers, attack while being in the frontline, and either healing yourself by using "paid in blood" or by having others heal you. There are talents that give you extra movement aplenty, so the low agility isn't that big of a problem in of itself. Being targeted also isn't that big of a deal if you set up a veil of blades, maybe having someone else at your side as an extra support While sure, it's not obtimal ( usually not getting hit is better, unless you're a chad name Abelard ), I think it can reach some really high levels. Especially if you have a biomancer ( like Henrix ) already at hand giving you a small tap on hp. Or hell, maybe even an Officer, if it works with Temporary Wounds.
Blessed scars is amazing. Blood oath heals you for every kill... so you're getting 10+ Tgh every round and you have a ton of skills that scall with TGH. Without having to waste points into toughness... plus that bonus to wounds that scales with dodge. You said don't take it because you're stacking dosge....... thats exactly why you should take it. At least one of those. Glass canon front line melee that burns health to power its abilities and grows stronger needs high health
still need to get the dlc, but i would love to see a breakdown of the executioner class, a pyro psyker was my first playthrough class and i would really like to really see how executioner synergizes with it.
Death waltz shreds bosses on the base difficulty lmao, and in the off chance it+death from above charges dont kill the boss, the acrobatic artistry following it will But on this playthrough no matter how much agi i have my BD seems to like rolling really low on initiative so they end up on cleanup duty
Wait there's been a temple of death cult assassins that worship the emperor and me on my ship this whole time and no ones told me about it - ABELARD !!!!!!!
Thanks for the video. Bladedancer seems like a great class and a fun addition to the game.
Abelard, tell this glorious man I'll be waiting for his updated build guides before I start a new game as a strict, dogmatic officer.
Only comment is about Acrobatic Artistry, this talent is INSANE. Its not just about returning to the place where you started the turn for defensive purposes, every time you return to a cell, you redo the action that was done on it, meaning Death From Above repeats on every single instance you used it, if its a single target or 2 tough guys close to eachother, you just dance around them 3-4 -5 times, and then use Acrobatic Artistry, aaaand you will do all the Death From Above's again.
Absurdly strong right after using Death Waltz if you also have the 4+ Death from Above stacks, you can end up attacking 30 times lol. So far, NOTHING has survived it in hard.
When Slandered read the ability out, I was thinking wow that could be amazing. Then he said he wouldn't recommend just gets you back to your start position (paraphrasing) and I was like, wait wait wait, I think you have missed the whole re-do every death from above you did this turn part of the ability. That's ok we all make mistakes sometimes.
Acrobatic Artistry seems really great and I imagine will be one of the two abilities picked by most people.
I love Owlcat studio! I wish they were working on a new Pathfinder game! I can dream I guess. I really don't know where they are headed now that they are not going to be making a new Pathfinder or Warhammer 40k game! Thanks for all of the great info regarding Rogue Trader's new DLC! I got it first thing the day it came out! Cant wait to play a new playthrough with the Blade dancer!
Or starfinder. If they can upgrade their graphics and incorporate voice for every line they would go next level and be a true competitor in the triple a scene
@@cw6132 That would be a dream come true!
I’ve ran a priest deathworld blade dancer on unfair and I went with the masochist build, I had like 160% dodge with max traumas and managed to curb stomp aurora. Only issue is turn timers if you have broken legs
It took me a bit to wrap my head around the class but once it gets going and you get the talents for it? Tons of fun.
Love giving this one drukhari blades especially the dual djin blades, between death from above and acrobatic artistry she wipes the floor with most encounters.
The dlc is fantastic so far. The archetypes are fun and powerful and the new environments are so detailed and well done
It took me a while to understand the archetype. Thank you for the explanation. I don't have friends who play Rogue Trader, so build discussions are nonexistent for me.
First, great info. Thank you for sharing.
Next, I'm 65 years old, and I bought my first PC in 1984, so I've played my fair share of games. These days, I'm more interested in the story than the mechanics/challenge so my first play throughs are generally on Story or Easy mode. Follow-up games are more of a completionist type at the higher difficulty levels. With the new DLC I began a new playthrough with the Blade Dancer. I love the class. With the Blade Dance and Death from Above skills, I can clear battlefields in one turn, pretty much solo. I can't believe I'm going to say this, but at least at the less difficult levels, the Blade Dancer is in need of a nerf. She is just way over powered.
Hey there - I had to respond to you! Lol, I am right behind you at 63 years old! Have been playing D&D since 79' and Video Games since 80'! Old timers rejoice!!! I am really into the story these days myself but I still do get excited with a great combat system and I really do like Rogue Traders combat!!!
Sounds like you are playing the game on story mode and finding it too easy. Not surprising as enemies have 80% less health, death from above would kill most enemies in one hit. Now you have experience with the game I would recommend you re-start and turn the difficulty up to daring and give yourself a challenge. Daring is the default difficulty and gives no bonuses or penalties. Try it , if it's too hard persevere. I think you will be pleasantly surprised, but if it's still too hard bump back to normal. Then if your still not having fun after that, go back to story mode, but I can't see that happening.
@@gharn2594 Thank you for the advice. You are correct; I set the difficulty too low.
@@RobertSmith-gu7qo No worries. I just hope you have fun :)
This is an amazing archetype! I have wanted this sort of build for awhile now.
Useful info, thanks!
Saved if for my later play-through.
My pleasure!
Having fun playing around with Kibellah, went with the rule of cool picking her abilities, so probably not the best build, but still fun.
Man, this just looks super fun
love your channel dude!
Melee characters are a lot of fun
Nice one, thank you.
Love the videos bud!
They are the best Videos and I know all about good videos!
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I think that they went for 2 types of blade dancers here. The base and most probably common I guess will be the agility one, which make sense.. but I wonder if you can make a full TOUGHNESS and have it be effective ( basically you switch agility for toughness ). There are enough talents that reward losing hp ( not only from attacks but from using your own abilities ), getting attacked and parrying and such, and the toughness bonus from getting healed doesn't have a cap. So essentially you can keep using your powers, attack while being in the frontline, and either healing yourself by using "paid in blood" or by having others heal you. There are talents that give you extra movement aplenty, so the low agility isn't that big of a problem in of itself. Being targeted also isn't that big of a deal if you set up a veil of blades, maybe having someone else at your side as an extra support
While sure, it's not obtimal ( usually not getting hit is better, unless you're a chad name Abelard ), I think it can reach some really high levels. Especially if you have a biomancer ( like Henrix ) already at hand giving you a small tap on hp. Or hell, maybe even an Officer, if it works with Temporary Wounds.
Blessed scars is amazing. Blood oath heals you for every kill... so you're getting 10+ Tgh every round and you have a ton of skills that scall with TGH. Without having to waste points into toughness... plus that bonus to wounds that scales with dodge. You said don't take it because you're stacking dosge....... thats exactly why you should take it. At least one of those. Glass canon front line melee that burns health to power its abilities and grows stronger needs high health
still need to get the dlc, but i would love to see a breakdown of the executioner class, a pyro psyker was my first playthrough class and i would really like to really see how executioner synergizes with it.
Besides pyro grenades and the hand flamer, how do you set multiple targets ablaze? It's my one concern for the class.
Death waltz shreds bosses on the base difficulty lmao, and in the off chance it+death from above charges dont kill the boss, the acrobatic artistry following it will
But on this playthrough no matter how much agi i have my BD seems to like rolling really low on initiative so they end up on cleanup duty
This is my favorite melee archetype. I'm not touching the warrior ever again. It's just too fun to play.
Read Acrobatic Artistry again :D
Making the RT a blade dancer and having Kibellah as well in the party it will break the game? because Blade dancer is way too OP
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