Walking the Way: A Swordsage's Handbook [Under Construction]

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Minor disagreement on the 1st level ones:

Charging Minotaur - Sure, the bull rush effect is somewhat mediocre. But it ignores AoOs for movement! Need to get past a bunch of foes? Charging Minotaur somebody on the other side. Like a super-Tumble with a free (if not too effective) attack.

Sudden Leap - Even if you have no investment into Jump, this is ~10' swift action movement - probably as good as you'll get at low level, and enough to turn a 5' step into "out of full-attack range". If you have, say, Boots of Striding and Springing for the movement boost, then we're talking 20'.

Shadow Blade Technique - This is much better than Clinging Shadow Strike. Whether it should be cyan or CSS should be black, I don't know, but it does the same bonus damage, significantly increases your chance to hit, and increases your chance to crit, at the expense of a really crappy debuff.

Distracting Ember - I'd call this 'meh'. There are a lot of manuevers that enable SA, and this one doesn't do much else. It doesn't even stick around long enough for an enemy to waste attacks on it, and you can't help allies unless they specially ready for the opportunity.