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How do the two builds compare?

Remaining Energy

Surge

Summary

Smooth, cyclical, fast-paced rotation with multiple heavy-hitting abilities.

Sustained burst, focused on one massive damage number every 6 - 10 seconds.

Pros

Very fluid
High mobility
Good stagger

Concentrated damage distribution
Forgiving gauge recovery

Cons

Significantly punished by missing gauge generators
Very punishing against highly mobile bosses

Unstable performance due to Surge’s crit variance
Low utility potential

Remaining Energy

Summary

Smooth, cyclical, fast-paced rotation with multiple heavy-hitting abilities.

Pros

Very fluid
High mobility
Good stagger

Cons

Significantly punished by missing gauge generators
Very punishing against highly mobile bosses

Surge

Summary

Sustained burst, focused on one massive damage number every 6 - 10 seconds.

Pros

Concentrated damage distribution
Forgiving gauge recovery

Cons

Unstable performance due to Surge’s crit variance
Low utility potential

How does my identity work?

Deathblade’s Identity consists of a three-orb gauge system, and a finisher attack. The identity gauge can be activated to enter Death Trance once it has filled at least one orb to provide the player with powerful buffs. This effect becomes stronger for each additional orb filled, up to a maximum of three.

The identity gauge is filled by using normal skills and your Awakening skill, and both builds have their own ways of utilizing the gauge system to their advantage.

Chaos Dungeon

Blitz Rush

Level 14

Galewind

Spincutter

Level 10

Galewind

Turning Slash

Level 14

Galewind

Death Sentence

Level 12

Galewind

Soul Absorber

Level 12

Galewind

Maelstrom

Level 10

Galewind

Twin Shadows

Level 14

Wealth

Void Strike

Level 12

Wealth

Deathly Slash

Level

Awakening

Engravings

Flash Blink

Ark Grid Cores

Sun

Moon

Star

Order

Art Master

Arts Core

Basics

Chaos

Flashy Attack|Stable Attack|Swift Attack

Smoldering Strike|Absorbing Strike

Attack|Weapon

Ark Passives

Evolution

Enlightenment

Leap

Evolution

Critical

10/30

Specialization

30/30

Limit Break*

3/3

Strike

2/2

Master

1/1

Pulverize

1/1

Standing Striker

2/2

Enlightenment

Rapid Strike

1/1

Remaining Energy

3/3

Firm Will

3/3

Swordcraft Enhancement

1/5

Extreme Body Movement

3/3

Orb Circulation

1/5

Leap

Transcendent Power

3/5

Unleashed Power

5/5

Instant Spell*

3/3

Awakening Amplifier

1/3

Dance of Nightmares

3/3

Notes

Limit Break points can be reallocated for the following alternatives:
- Keen Sense (x/2): provides slightly lower damage but helps to reduce crit variance.
- Optimized Training (1/2): provides less damage but allows you to have a smoother rotation at lower gem levels.
*If running Breaking Moon, take Flash Slash instead.
*You can run Instant Spell (2/3), in which case you add a point to Transcendent Power, if you have access to a lot of mana recovery (Artist / Summoner & mana food).
For the side nodes, allocate one point into Orb Circulation and allocate the rest of your available points into Swordcraft Enhancement. (You can allocate more points into Orb Circulation if you feel like you need more meter gen).

Engravings

Core Engravings

Pick One

Core Engravings

Pick One

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Notes

Raid Captain efficiency varies greatly depending on several factors. To be a damage increase over Cursed Doll you need:
- Support’s Goddess of Blessing Ark Passive effect (9%) + Death Trance (Lv.3) (12%) + 70 Swiftness stat from horizontals (1.2%).
- Maelstrom’s Dark Order tripod (12.8%) applied to 100% of your damage results in ~14% / 16.8% dmg (Legendary /Relic Raid Captain). Additional sources of Move Speed can lower this requirement:
  - Event Feast (5%) reduces it to ~61.1% / 64.3%.
  - Regular Feast (3.5%) reduces it to ~72.9% / 76%.
  - Vernese Wine from Peyto/Fermata ships (3%) reduces it to ~76.8% / 80%. This prevents you from using Mana Regen food, tho.
    - Event Feast + Wine (8%) ~37.7% / 40.9%.
    - Regular Feast + Wine (6.5%) ~49.5% / 52.7%.
If you are new to Remaining Energy or progging raids, it is recommended to choose Cursed Doll over Raid Captain until you are getting familiarized with the rotation / boss patterns.

Skills

Maelstrom

Level 10

Focus

Multi-buff & Synergy Skill

Having this buff up when casting Soul Absorber and Void Strike is critical to your rotation.
If you run Raid Captain, you should ideally fit your whole rotation during its duration for maximum damage output.

Spincutter

Level 4

Galewind

Bleed

Mobility Skill

Bleed provides a bit more damage but requires to cast Spincutter every rotation which can lead to mana issues in some cases.
Purify can be slotted in for raids that require self debuff cleansing.

Earth Cleaver

Level 14

Galewind

Counter, Weak Point, Stagger, Damage Filler

Overwhelm can be used in raids that require more stagger.

Soul Absorber

Level 14

Galewind

Primary Orb Gen Skill, Main Damage Skill

Wealth can be considered if you find yourself missing skills often. Also a decent choice when progging raids.

Void Strike

Level 14

Wealth

Primary Orb Gen Skill, Main Damage Skill

Death Sentence

Level 14

Focus

Main Damage Skill & Stagger Skill

Has good stagger.
Galewind can be considered ONLY if you have access to a lot of mana recovery (Artist / Summoner + mana food & Instant Spell 3/3)

Twin Shadows

Level 14

Wealth

Secondary Orb Gen Skill & Damage Skill

Bleed is also a good choice (if you are confident you do not need the extra meter gen from Wealth) and will apply naturally doing the main rotation.

Turning Slash

Level 10-13

Poison

Bleed

Secondary Damage Skill, Push Immunity, Synergy

T Skill and Awakening

Deathly Slash

Provides precise mobility (Point skill) and short animation lock.

Can be used every 2nd rotation.

Blade Assault

Chaotic Deathblade

Longer cast time than Bl Skill 01 18 Flash Blink, but it deals more damage and provides more meter in exchange.

Gem Priority

Gems are listed in order of most to least important from left to right. Grayed out icons are optional.

DMG

With all 3 Loa Core Order Sun Order's Core maxed out, Bl Skill 01 4 Death Sentence DMG gem takes prio over Bl Skill 01 7 Soul Absorber and Bl Skill 01 9 Turning Slash over Bl Skill 01 5 Twin shadows.

CDR

Rotation

Notes

(video)

This opener rotation requires you to have 3 bubbles Bl Skill 01 21 Surge ready.

DPS Distribution

FAQ

Is a specless bracelet usable?

No. The lack of specialization on bracelets makes the rotation way too clunky and you will only hurt yourself.

How do I solve mana issues?

On both builds, you will most likely need Mana Food everytime if you are not playing with Artists or Summoners.
On Standard build, having 2 focus runes is a must.
On very stationary bosses like Mordum gate 3, you can opt to choose Tripod Tier 1 34 Magick Control over Tripod Tier 1 37 Orb Control on Bl Skill 01 5 Twin Shadows to remove mana issues since you generate way much meter with the boss being static (Less likely to miss skills). /!\ Only on Standard Build /!\

On HH build, you should not be running out of mana that often if your support has decent uptime. But if you do, you can choose to take Focus Legendary Focus on Bl Skill 01 17 Head Hunt or Bl Skill 01 4 Death Sentence.

Raid Captain or Cursed Doll?

If you are new to Remaining Energy or progging raids for the first time, it is recommended to run
Cursed Doll over Raid Captain and getting familiarized with the rotation / boss patterns before choosing Raid Captain. Not having to worry about Bl Skill 01 12 Maelstrom uptimes besides for meter gen is way more forgiving and can result in higher damage if your Maelstrom uptime is lacking in the first place.

What are the differences between the 8 Damage Build and the HH build?

For some context, 8 Damage Build is basically the HH build but running Earth Cleaver instead of Head Hunt as a counter. This was the old variation of this build but got replaced by HH build due to these reasons :

- Faster rotation.
- Better counter (No dashes and it is instant).
- Solves the mana issues by using the Magick Control on Head Hunt.
- Shorter cooldown allowing you to fix rotations.
- Low skill points needed, allowing you to put more points on main damages skills.

Should I play Standard or HH Build ?

HH build is the higher ceiling build out of the two, but requires a bit of investment (A lot of wealth runes and at least level 8 CD gems for it to play smoothly) and having a good mastery of how to play RE (You need to know your meter gen very well, know the bosses pattern, know how to adapt on the fly).
For these reasons, if you are a new player or returning, you should focus on learning the Standard build first. Keep in mind that HH build exists, and you can slowly swap to it when you are feeling confident enough to.
If you are a long time Deathblade player and you are doing well on Standard, I suggest you to swap and learn HH build.

Interested about playing Fatal Wave (3/3/3 cores)?

Here is a document that showcase two different builds, one based on HH build and one based from Standard.