Elixirs and Incense
It's important to run Elixirs and Incenses at all times. Not only because they increase your Experience gain but also because they provide very strong combat boosts.
For Elixirs you will use Elixir of Resourcefulness for Maximum Energy, which will increase your Beastfall Boots Damage Multiplier.
For Incenses you will use Spiral Morning for Dexterity, Song of the Mountain for Armor and Soothing Spices for All Resistances and more Armor.
Attack Speed Breakpoints
Because the game's server operates in frames (images), Skills can only be cast in a whole number of frames. This means, for example, that you can't cast a Skill in 10.2 frames. To extend this example further, that means that all Attack Speed values that lead to a cast time of 10.01 to 10.99 frames would mean you end up casting at 11 frames, effectively wasting all Attack Speed gains from 11 frames to 10.01.
In order to avoid wasting Attack Speed, you can calculate the Attack Speed Breakpoints for your skills using THIS SHEET.
You might be wondering how frames translate into actual Cast Speed. Because the server runs at 60 frames per second the way we translate frames into Cast Speed is with the formula: 60 / Frames = Casts per Second.
Masterworking and Tempering Explained
If you want to learn more about Masterworking and Tempering, check out our Masterworking and Tempering Guide.
FAQ
Why are we not scaling Twisting Blades Damage?
Our main damage comes from
Poison Imbuement and effects that multiplicatively buff
Twisting Blades other than
Bladedancer's Aspect do not result in a damage increase.
Poison Imbuement only calculates from
Twisting Blades Base Damage which can only be increased by +Core Skill Ranks. Therefore, we are mostly using global damage buffs or Poison Damage and Imbuement scalers.