When discharge happens on both-hand attack the Cadence discharge will always be applied to main hand.For clarity I would call it a both-hand Cadence followup. If you roll a both-hand attack on Cadence discharge then only one hit will actually be the Cadence hit, the second one will be a somewhat normal attack. Cadence follows the same routine, but despite the tooltip it always hits with one hand.When you dual-wield your singular normal attack can be either done with main hand, off hand or both.Now if youвЂ™ve already familiar with content found in that thread then all you need is this fact briefing: Turbo-charge your auto-attacks with default attack replacers and WPS Some entry-level insight into WPS can be found here: Blademaster has a whooping 6 WPS skills - MarkovianвЂ™s Advantage, ZolhanвЂ™s Technique, BelgothianвЂ™s Shears, AmarastaвЂ™s Quick Cut, Whirling Death and Execution. The skill has funny interactions with weapon pool system procs (commonly abbreviated as WPS). Now, thatвЂ™s not all there is when it comes to pierce Cadence, itвЂ™s more complicated than that. A 50% armor piercing sword with Blades of Nadaan will fully convert physical damage of Cadence and most procs to piercing damage. The bonus is multiplicative, so a 50% armor piercing sword will effectively turn into 100%.Д«ottomline, when you play a DW melee piercing build you normally get Blades of Nadaan, donвЂ™t know any exceptions. This bonus is very rare, but builds that use swords enjoy a 100% piercing increase from Blades of Nadaan constellation. Thankfully thereвЂ™s a special stat called вЂњIncreased Armor Piercing by X%вЂќ. Ideally you want all physical damage to be converted into piercing damage, because due to how physical damage works a build that is part physical part piece is just a bad pierce build.ДЇew exceptions aside armor piercing stat found on gear would actually be pretty low - between 10% and 40% for generic swords and up to 50% for some dedicated pierce damage swords, including Dermapteran Slicer Now, the question is how high your armor piercing needs to be. What it means for Blademaster in practice is all physical damage weвЂ™ll be doing is going to be partially converted to piercing damage. Moreover, Armor Piercing applies even to damage of various skills and procs, as long as they do at least some weapon damage. What can be easily misunderstood is that Armor Piercing doesnвЂ™t affect just base damage of the weapon, it affects all applied flat physical damage portions that come from gear, devotions or buffs (like Deadly Momentum). To put it in simple words, in Grim Dawn edged weapons like swords and axes inflict a percentage of their physical damage as piercing damage, and that percentage is called Armor Piercing in-game and is shown under weaponвЂ™s base damage. This kind of conversion is different from any other damage conversions because itвЂ™s done via armor piercing of the weapon. The core mechanic of the build is the conversion of physical damage of Cadence skill into piercing damage. To help in dealing with crowds Blade Spirits are usually used in high end builds, but budget setup has neither skillpoints nor conversions needed. At no point in the game it would have a screen-wide AoE clear. It excels in fights against a limited number of opponents while dealing with big, thinly spread crowds isnвЂ™t exactly itвЂ™s forte. The playstyle is that of a durable duelist. I can make about four distinct budget blademaster setups, but only one you can level with - a pierce dual wield Cadence build presented in this guide. This is true for both high end and budget endgame setups. It is a powerful class with several strong endgame options, the only entry-level difficulty is it requires some game mechanics knowledge specific for pierce damage.Дespite the plentitude of endgame builds most of them only make sense because of endgame gear support. It came to my attention that many beginner players are interested in Blademaster. Picture with all permanent buffs + UlzaadвЂ™s Decree active

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