Shadow Dagger Blademaster Leveling Build Guide

This is a fast pace, quick clearing and high damage output build for the Blademaster. This build will easily take you from level 1 to level 100 without any difficulty. Featuring insanely high critical strike damage on Shadow Daggers which proc from a # of skills in the loadout. Shadow Daggers is an ailment and not a skill you actually place on your bar, but it crits 100% of the time. Allowing you to choose stats like PrefixCritical Strike Multiplier and PrefixPhysical Damage to increase its output. Umbral Blades are used as one of the sources to trigger the Shadow Daggers. However, instead of using it as the default PrefixPhysical Damage it's modified to deal Cold Damage and potentially freezes the target and chills for crowd control. The damage from Umbral Blades is fairly negligible and it's a means of triggering frequent Shadow Daggers capable of melting even bosses.

Shift is a very useful tool for mobility and deals large aoe damage. When talented this will cast Shadow Cascade at the departure and arrival destinations, clearing enemies while making you invulnerable and increasing your movement speed, survivability and damage output. Whether you place Shadow Cascade on your loadout bar or not is entirely up to you as it will proc even if it isn't placed there and keep its specialized properties. That being said, if you keep Shadow Cascade on your action bar you don't need to manually cast it. Some variations use an untalented Decoy allowing you to specialize in another skill. However, for the leveling process and farming monoliths Decoy can be very useful. It's capable of holding the attention of enemies, buffing and debuffing.

Smoke Bomb is great for high health mobs or bosses. It will provide additional damage and debuff the enemies once specialized. There is no need to cast it while moving to objectives as the damage output of this build and mobilty are so great.