Quote (Dead @ Jun 7 2011 12:07am)

Blade Master has been massively rebalanced so it's no longer a glass cannon. I would personally never consider that build as if you do the math sword of justice is a much better spam skill then sword of reckoning however you do probably have more knowledge of what a better build is for survivability in HC mode since I generally stuck to Elite Non Hardcore.

http://hellgate.4fansites.de/patchnotes20.php - patch notes from abyss chronicles (some changes there if anyones interested in reading up) I have yet to find anything any patch updates on tokyo content included in the new hellgate resurrection (global) but when I do I'll post up.

http://www.hellgatelondon.de/hellgate-charplanner/en-blademaster.html - Old outdated char builder for all classes.  (Note the level cap has been removed now in resurrection + alot of skills have changed)

http://hellgate.matrix.jp/skilltree/Blademaster.php - current skill planner (It's in Korean because only the Korean version of the game is currently released us/europe is in beta so you might want to glance at the old one for descriptions you'll note some skills have been changed around + 3 new skills per class you can read up on in the patch update above.)

Quote (Saliozo @ Jun 6 2011 09:16pm)

I rolled a blade master in the original, and tried them again in closed beta, i haven't tried sword of reckoning(and don't remember it) but sword of justice hits multiple targets and swings super fast so you can proc all your surges.

which give you crit, hp and mp regen

Quote (Dead @ Jun 7 2011 12:18am)

Ya I personally prefered the sword of justice and whirlwind setup if you crunch the numbers sword of justice ends up dealing more damage then sword of reckoning (when they're both maxed)

But you might check the patch updates on the abyss chronicles link I posted not sure if they changed those skills any.

Quote (Saliozo @ Jun 6 2011 09:20pm)

yeah i noticed that surge was different, i think it worked off kills before, now its a flat % chance to proc, which is better.

gonna check out the patch notes

Quote (Dead @ Jun 6 2011 10:14pm)

http://hellgate.matrix.jp/skilltree/Blademaster.php - blademaster
http://hellgate.matrix.jp/skilltree/Engineer.php - engineer
http://hellgate.matrix.jp/skilltree/Evoker.php - evoker
http://hellgate.matrix.jp/skilltree/Guardian.php - guardian
http://hellgate.matrix.jp/skilltree/Marksman.php - marksman
http://hellgate.matrix.jp/skilltree/Summoner.php - Summoner

http://hellgate.matrix.jp/skilltree/Blademaster.php - (Old planner all in one change class this is in english for descriptions of skills)

Important Read the patch link above (In my prior post)  if you want to see the 3 new skills added to each class and again there's some skill changes

1 example the marksman skills go now in this order

Concussion rounds

Rebounder rounds

Ravager rounds

and are no longer passive

That's just one change to the skill trees example.

Quote (Switch11 @ Jun 6 2011 09:24pm)

its in japanese

Quote (Dead @ Jun 6 2011 10:26pm)

I believe it's korean? Correct me if I'm wrong but as the game isn't released in europe/us atm obviously the updated version is in a foreign language.  It's currently only released in Korea/Japan to my knowledge.

Quote (Switch11 @ Jun 6 2011 09:29pm)

it says .jp so i assume its japanese

Quote (Dead @ Jun 6 2011 10:30pm)

Good point didn't really pay attention to that, was just providing the links.