Really? I thought it only take 75% of the base weapon damage not including the enhanced damage
I was nearly sure but i always hear different stories dependings on who I'm asking
It does work with the weapon ed%
But everything that is normally applied to your base dmg is reduced by each blade skills’ fraction.
Blade fury has a higher fraction (3/4) making it scale a bit better with weapon ed%. But this skill should be avoided most of the time in pvp. The animation is way too clunky, it’s too easy to telestomp behind you or sidestep shurikens while retaliating, making this skill impossible to use against any decent player.
Better just use sentinels, spam MB and use dtalon against telestomps.
Your 2 main skills benefit way less from weapon ed%.
Sentinels 3/8, shield 1/4
Even the most expensive claws in the game aren’t doing much for a bladesin.
Look at 450ed eth RT… (wsm is very important)
That’s only 280 average dmg
280 average dmg claw is reduced to only +105 dmg after the 3/8 dmg on sentinels, while your blade sentinels can have up to some 1500 skill dmg applied to your base dmg after the 3/8 factor.
And 450ed is 2 prefix.
So after that you can only get 1 out of the best 3:
Fools / 2sin / 2os
Even for fury…
280dmg = 210dmg out of your ~1700 base dmg after the skill bonus.
That’s very minimal dmg, it ends up being way less bonus than either 20% DS (applied after that 1700dmg is multiplied by all your off-weapon ed, skill ed and stats) or +2 all skills (more off-weapon ed from claw mastery, bonus skill dmg, ar, crit).
Imo, even a magic RT with only a single prefix, fools+2os (that you can SSF in an hour or 2 by rerolling with gems) is beating 99.9% of the other options, including plague. 11% extra DS is already more bonus dmg than max ed on plague, and fools is just too damn good for a bladesin.
The best bladesin claw would need to be imbued or rerolled at low clvl, so it can get +3 claw mastery, +3 blade sentinel.
RT is the preferred base, as it will allow you to reach fastest trap laying speed more easily and the base dmg is even more irrelevant if you use the perfect claw without any ed%, to get 2sin/fools/2os.