Dual Blades

Overview

Dual Blades is one of the powersets to come. It is a Scrapper primary power set and a Tanker secondary set in City of Heroes, and a Stalker and Brute primary powerset in City of Villains. It is set to come out with issue 11. The devs (Back Alley Brawler in particular) have confirmed that the set will be insanely quick.

A video of this set in action is available from the Official movie page!

Powers

Scrapper/Tanker/Brute

The Dual Blades powerset is available to Scrappers and Brutes as a primary powerset and to Tankers as a secondary powerset. The following table lists the powers in order, along with their levels for primary, then secondary.

	Power	Level	Effect
	Nimble Slash	1,1	Melee, Minor Damage (Lethal). Begins Empower and Weaken combos
	Power Slice	1,2	Melee, Moderate Damage(Lethal). Needed for Sweep combo
	Ablating Strike	2,4	Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal), Foe -Defense. Needed for Empower and Weaken combos, begins Attack Vitals combo
	Typhoon's Edge	6,10	Point Blank Area of Effect Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal). Finishes Weaken and Sweep combos
	Blinding Feint	8,16	Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal). Finishes Empower combo
	Confront	12,20	Ranged, Foe Taunt
	Vengeful Slice	18,28	Melee, Moderate Damage(Lethal), Foe Knockdown. Needed for Attack Vitals combo
	Sweeping Strike	26,35	Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal). Finishes Attack Vitals combo
	One Thousand Cuts	32,38	Melee, Superior Damage (Lethal). Begins Sweep combo

Stalker

	Power	Level	Effect
	Nimble Slash	1	Melee, Minor Damage (Lethal). Needed for Attack Vitals combos
	Power Slice	1	Melee, Moderate Damage(Lethal). Needed for Weaken combo
	Ablating Strike	2	Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal), Foe -Defense. Begins Attack Vitals combo, finishes Sweep combo
	Assassin's Blades	6	Point Blank Area of Effect Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal). Needed for Empower and Sweep combos
	Build Up	8	Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal). Begins Empower and Sweep combos
	Placate	12	Ranged, Foe Placate. Finishes Empower combo
	Vengeful Slice	18	Melee, Moderate Damage(Lethal), Foe Knockdown. Finishes Attack Vitals combo
	Sweeping Strike	26	Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal). Begins Weaken combo
	One Thousand Cuts	32	Melee, Superior Damage (Lethal). Finishes Weaken combo

Combination Attacks

The highlight of the dual blades power set is its implementation of a "combo system." Most attacks lack a secondary effect (like Katana's -Def or Dark's -Acc) but the set makes up for this by adding the ability to chain attacks together to create an additional effect at the end.

Brute, Tanker, Scrapper

Combo Name	Empower	Weaken	Attack Vitals	Sweep
Effect	A build up like effect	Enemy -ToHit, -Def	Additional Damage Over Time	PBAoE Damage(Lethal), Knockdown
Open	1. Nimble Slash	1. Nimble Slash	1. Ablating Strike	1. One Thousand Cuts
Continue	2. Ablating Strike	2. Ablating Strike	2. Vengeful Slice	2. Power Slice
Finish	3. Blinding Feint	3. Typhoon's Edge	3. Sweeping Strike	3. Typhoon's Edge

Stalker

Combo Name	Empower	Weaken	Attack Vitals	Sweep
Effect	A build up like effect	Enemy -ToHit, -Def	Additional Damage Over Time	PBAoE Damage(Lethal), Knockdown
Open	1. Build Up	1. Sweeping Strike	1. Ablating Strike	1. Build Up
Continue	2. Assassin's Blades	2. Power Slice	2. Nimble Slash	2. Assassin's Blades
Finish	3. Placate	3. One Thousand Cuts	3. Vengeful Slice	3. Ablating Slice