The typhoon also grants DR once you're firing at full speed.
No, you misunderstand. I'm saying that (ignoring the power itself for now) your choices are;
5 ranks of passive for 35% to both shadow strike and electric slash, or
6 ranks of fitness for a variable 65-150%~ boost to shadow strike only
As far as which passive skill to get. You could also drop electric slash to three, and focus on both passive and fitness for an insane boost to shadow strike, but I find that doesn't actually wok as advertised. After a certain point the percentage increases stop counting. Which is why I think 5's across the board would work - the difference between rank 5 and rank 6 is only 300 points.
300 less damage in shadow strike alone, in order to increase shadow strike by 210, increase electric slash by 247, and carry heavier weapons is a fair trade off I feel.
Quality over quantity. If all you're digging is brutes, ravagers and cannibals, you're probably not going to need shields. If marauders and banshees are on the field, then not only are you able toget yields but you're in a position where doing so is drastically more life-saving.Yeah, but the availability of shielded targets is going to vary. The Reapers in particular only have Marauders and Banshees in that respect. The rank 4 defensive evolution works all the time, and costs less damage.
I had higher damage output with the shadow using both defensive boosts on shadowstrike, and using both area boosts on electric slash, than I did trying to increase the damage on any one of them. So Gavin both of them at decent level is pretty cool.
I was getting 180% after adding the mod, myself. And apparently it didn't actually weigh in at 180%, it was at 200% and lied to me. so it was pretty worth it.I'm only getting something like 170% with my Disciple at 7. No way I'd add a mod that'll increase the weight, even at rank 10, when there's a version that does the same thing (albeit weaker) without that downside. (Also, I don't have that mod anyway.)
Read the power again, luv. It says "after killing an enemy with a sword strike". All sword hits will trigger it. Combined with a maxed out sword heavy melee doing 1700+ to armor or barriers (1500 to flesh), and the light melee doing about the same with a three hit combo, and killing a husk with a melee sequence, cloaking, shadow striking a banshee into a heavy melee and then light sequence until she drops is totally valid.Question though - does Shadow Strike count for the Martial Artist effect from rank 5 of Fitness, or only actual melee? If the latter, I'd probably drop that when respecing in favor of the shield recharge boost. I'm actually thinking that getting the Shadow as much shield recharge reduction as possible may be a great way to go, to try and make it so that she starts recharging shields while doing Shadow Strike. (Unfortunately I only have one rank in the shield recharge gear...)