Clarification on Sweeping Strike/Bladestorm

#0 - Dec. 17, 2009, 5:24 p.m.
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What's the problem here? What's the scenario that is causing people trouble?

Is it that Sweeping Strikes charges are being used on single targets when there's nobody around? I certainly haven't noticed that.

Is it that when there are two targets around, sweeping strikes will distribute the five charges between the two of them in three swings of the Bladestorm? I can see how that'd be a lot of burst damage, but that's kind of how the ability works.
#6 - Dec. 17, 2009, 8:46 p.m.
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Q u o t e:
What's the problem here? What's the scenario that is causing people trouble?

Is it that Sweeping Strikes charges are being used on single targets when there's nobody around? I certainly haven't noticed that.

Is it that when there are two targets around, sweeping strikes will distribute the five charges between the two of them in three swings of the Bladestorm? I can see how that'd be a lot of burst damage, but that's kind of how the ability works.


We are working on a fix so that Sweeping Strikes can no longer trigger multiple times per second when used with Bladestorm. Each whirlwind caused by Bladestorm will only trigger one Sweeping Strike regardless of the number of targets in range - the current Whirlwind ability already works this way.

The goal of Sweeping Strikes is to hit extra targets, not to do more damage to existing targets to burst them down quickly. We’ll evaluate Bladestorm again once this change has gone live to see if any further changes are needed.