Zed's Forbidden Technique - Shadow Cascade Bladedancer Build Guide

For this section I recommend you go read the table below to check what stats we want on what item. I will only explain why here.

• PrefixMelee Attack Speed : It is the primary way to scale damage through Leveraged Momentum.
• PrefixMelee Physical Damage : There's not a lot of places where you can get base melee damage, so priortize this for weapons.
• SuffixChance to Shred Armour on Hit : Enemies have a lot of armor later in the game, you need ideally over 100%. As suffixes for weapons aren't great in general, we're getting it there.
• SuffixChance to apply Frailty on Melee Hit : We only need close to 100% as every combo triggers multiple attacks which should reach max stack on enemies.
• PrefixCritical Strike Multiplier, PrefixPhysical Damage are also the two easiest way to scale up your damage.
• PrefixMana efficiency with Synchronised Strike is great as it cost a lot of mana. It help a lot in making it manageable.
• PrefixLevel of Shadow Cascade gives us the highest possible global upgrade in damage, but is also the rarest to get.
• PrefixIncreased damage per active Shadow with Shadow Cascade gives us the highest possible % increase in damage.
• SuffixArmour and Reduced Bonus Damage from Crits is avery good stat to have on 2 different piece of gear, to make sure crits aren't as hard on you.
• SuffixHealth and SuffixHealth are multiply together, get as much as you can after capping resistances.
• SuffixHybrid Health is rare but the best of both world!

The rest is pretty obvious.

Important : The table below show what I currently have on my character as an example and proof, but you should refer to the build variant for optimal gear.

Explanation for base choices :

• Obsidian Dagger : The bases are simply the best with 43 base damage (The Maximum on daggers is 44) as well as +4% base critical strike chance and up to 80% increased physical damage.
• Brigandine Armour : Highest armor rating for rogue and gives us good physical resistance.
• Umbral Visage : Pretty high armor and decent critical strike multipler.
• Jade Amulet : Start with this before eventually switching to LP 2+ Xithara's conondrum. Look for Health, physical penetration, crit multiplier and resistances. (The reason I pick Xithara is it cut out sustain but gives us a good amount of damage. More damage is mostly only in the skill tree)
• Ivory Ring : For the necrotic resistance, that's all!
• Solarum Greaves and Crusader Gauntlets because it has higher armor and good resistances for their respective slots.
• Bronze Belt : Highest armor rating.
• Ancient Coins : Highest crit chance.

Try to use the idols to cap the resistances (with smaller percentages). Note that Vitality gives +1% necrotic and poison resistance.

Honorable mentions : PrefixDodge Rating, PrefixIncreased damage per active Shadow with Shadow Cascade, SuffixIncreased Armour Shred Duration are also very good.

This section will be short as you should take exactly what I have with one note : In my current build, for Ending the Storm's blessing, I took Grand Resonance of the Sea as my lightning resistance was already capped. I would need to get rid of this and pick Grand Bastion of Divinity.

As for Reigns of Dragons, taking Grand Survival of Might is also good, but unecessary.