Bladeweave

Ability information#

Requirements#

• Requires the equipped weapon’s assigned primary/secondary slot, normally 70/90 base weapon skill and (unless overridden below) 70/90 base Tactics. Use Best Weapon Skill can satisfy the weapon threshold with base Swords, Macing or Fencing.

Effects#

• Before a swing, selects uniformly from seven redirects: Armor Ignore, Bleed Attack, Concussion Blow, Crushing Blow, Double Strike, Mortal Strike and Paralyzing Blow.
• Forwards pre-swing, pre-damage, hit and miss callbacks to the chosen ability; the weapon’s Bladeweave slot provides the primary/secondary skill threshold for those callbacks.

Weapon assignments#

Notes#

• The selected callback pays its own mana cost; the surrounding Bladeweave logic also checks whether 30-base-mana cost is affordable.
• Bladeweave does not override DamageScalar, so the chosen ability’s advertised damage scalar is not automatically forwarded. Armor Ignore has a separate explicit check in BaseWeapon.
• Base mana is reduced by the shared ability skill-total discount and Lower Mana Cost rules; a second paid ability within the three-second cooldown costs double.

Related references#

• Elven machete
• Radiant scimitar
• Rune blade
• War cleaver