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
Closest proxies have been used for the icons here, to get the effects of the attacks across. WIP, what can I say? Pythe 17:32, 24 October 2007 (EDT)
| Power | Level | Effect |
|---|---|---|
 Nimble Slash
|
1 | Melee, Minor Damage (Lethal). Begins Empower and Weaken combos |
 Power Slice
|
1 | Melee, Moderate Damage(Lethal). Needed for Sweep combo |
 Ablating Strike
|
2 | Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal), Foe -Defense. Needed for Empower and Weaken combos, begins Attack Vitals combo |
 Typhoon's Edge
|
6 | Point Blank Area of Effect Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal). Finishes Weaken and Sweep combos |
 Blinding Feint
|
8 | Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal). Finishes Empower combo |
 Confront
|
12 | Ranged, Foe Taunt |
 Vengeful Slice
|
18 | Melee, Moderate Damage(Lethal), Foe Knockdown. Needed for Attack Vitals combo |
 Sweeping Strike
|
26 | Melee, Moderate Damage (Lethal). Finishes Attack Vitals combo |
 One Thousand Cuts
|
32 | Melee, Superior Damage (Lethal). Begins Sweep 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.
This table needs work to fit in with the look and feel of the others. -Pythe 18:04, 24 October 2007 (EDT)
| 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 |