Blade Blast

Blade Blast is a spell that creates an area of effect explosion that deals physical damage. The explosion chains to any Lingering Blades left on the ground by Bladefall and Ethereal Knives, and blades created by Blade Vortex. If used with Blade Vortex, all stacks of it will be consumed immediately, creating an expanding ring around the player.

Skill functions and interactions

The damage and level of the skill that leaves lingering blades on the ground is not calculated in the blade blast damage. Lower level skills can create more blades in certain situations. For example:

• Keeping skills low enough to support a level one Cast when Damage Taken Support, will give the best chance to create maximum blades from damage taken.

Lingering blades from Ethereal Knives and Bladefall will persist after unequipping them. Therefore using said skills on a weapon swap and then swapping back to blade blast will save gem slots.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.17.0	Blade Blast now deals 11 to 17 Physical Damage at gem level 1 (unchanged), up to 309 to 464 at gem level 20 (previously 210 to 315). Now has 70% Effectiveness of Added Damage at all gem levels (previously 50%).
3.15.0	Now has “80% more Area of Effect per Blade Vortex blade detonated” (previously 35%). No longer Unnerves Enemies for 4 seconds on Hit. No longer has radius scaling with gem level. Now has a base radius of 14 (previously 18).
3.14.0	Now deals 11-17 Physical Damage at gem level 1 (previously 13-20) and 210-315 Physical Damage (previously 279-418) at gem level 20. Now has added damage effectiveness of 50% (previously 60%).
3.13.0	Now has 35% more area of effect per Blade Vortex blade detonated (from 20%).
3.11.0	Made improvements to Totem AI for skills that have some sort of prerequisite for use (such as blades for Blade Blast, or corpses for Detonate Dead).
3.10.1d	Fixed a bug where Shock Nova and Blade Blast’s skill effects were not the correct visual size when cast with 9 or more stacks of Intensity.
3.10.1c	Fixed an instance crash that could occur when using Blade Blast.
3.10.0	Blade Blast has been added to the game.

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