Note:What works with Blade skills and Kicks has changed over patches, Updated lists below
Calculating Blade Skill Damage
It means that x/y of your total damage is in effect on the Blade skill, in addition to its own natural damage. This includes elemental damage, poison, etc., bonuses from CM/STR/DEX in terms of claw damage despite what it says. If you're C/C, it uses damage from whichever claw you equip first (or have still equipped, if you unequipped one) + external elemental damage.
It should be noted that this property reduces Venom's duration in proportion to its damage, and not its damage alone. For example: At level one, Venom does 60-80 damage over 0.4 seconds(150-200 over one second), and can be expressed in the following equation):
(150-200 damage / sec) times (0.4 seconds) = 60-80 total damage
The Blade skills' property (in this case, BSentinel's +3/8 damage) changes the above equation:
60-80 (over 0.4 secs) reduced to 60-80 * 3/8 (over 0.4 sec * 3/8) =
60-80 (over 0.4 secs) reduced to 22.5-30 (over 0.15 sec.)
So while the damage/frame is still unaffected, in practice, you have to be able to hit once every 0.15 seconds(3.75 frames) to keep up your Venom damage rate, which is near impossible except with Blade Shield and BFury.
Note: It isn't a good idea to use Two-Handed weapons with the Blade skills, if your aim is to improve Physical damage with them, as the Physical damage of Two-Handed weapons takes an additional 50% damage penalty (on top of the fraction of damage that is applied on the Blade Skills). So, when using Two-Handed weapons, only 3/8 on BFury, 3/16 on BSentinel, and 1/8 on Blade Shield of Physical damage is transferred over to the Blade skills (despite what it shows for BFury and BSentinel on the Character Screen). However, the elemental damage transferred remains unaffected.
Blade Shield's range is locked at 6(or 4 yards). Weapon range does not affect it.
Blade Shield's speed is locked at 25 frames (i.e. it damages every second).
Blade skills do require AR (use Normal Attack AR), despite them not having an AR listed on the Character Screen.
The speed an Assassin throws out each star in Bladefury is locked at 6 frames.
Since the Blade skills make use of weapon damage, Claw Mastery/+%ED Auras (such as Might) increase the damage you do with the Blade skills
However, Claw Mastery only increases the Blade skills' damage if you're using claw(s).
This post was edited by ezk1ng on May 8 2019 01:00am