Online:Assassin's Blade

	Assassin's Blade
Line		Assassination
Line Rank		20	Cost	2430 Magicka
Cast Time		Instant	Duration	–
Target		Enemy
Range		7 meters
Morphs
		Killer's Blade Converts into a Stamina ability, deals Disease Damage, and now scales linearly based on missing Health rather than a flat value. Also heals you if the target dies within two seconds of use.
		Impale Allows you to use the ability at range and increases the execute multiplier.
Notes Values are based on Max Magicka/Stamina 12000, Max Health 16000, and Weapon/Spell Damage 1000.

Assassin's Blade

Assassin's Blade: Thrust a magic blade with lethal precision to stab an enemy, dealing [3073 / 3106 / 3140 / 3174] Magic Damage. Deals 300% more damage to enemies below 25% Health.

Killer's Blade: Cost: 2066 Stamina.
Thrust a caustic blade with lethal precision to stab an enemy, dealing 3176 Disease Damage. Deals up to 400% more damage to enemies with less than 50% Health. Heals you for [6351 / 6421 / 6491 / 6561] if the enemy dies within 2 seconds of being struck.

Impale: Range: [25 / 26 / 27 / 28] meters.
Throw a magic blade with lethal precision to strike an enemy, dealing 3176 Magic Damage. Deals 330% more damage to enemies below 25% Health.

Assassin's Blade deals Magic Damage, with increased damage to targets with low health. The Killer's Blade morph changes it to have a Stamina cost and deal ramping execute Disease Damage instead of a flat execute magic damage, also healing you if the target dies shortly after use. Or you can use the Impale morph, which allows it to be used at a distance.

Notes

• Impale is a recommended morph for the Nightblade Initiate and Deathweaver builds, while Killer's Blade is recommended for Umbral Assassin.

Gallery

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  Killer's Blade morph disease visual

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  Killer's Blade morph on-kill heal visual

Patch Notes

1.2.3

• This ability's visual effects are now easier to see.

2.4.5

• Killer's Blade: This morph now deals Disease Damage instead of Magic Damage.

2.7.5

• Impale: Increased the range of this morph to 28 meters at Rank IV from 18 meters.
  • Developer Comments: Increasing the range on this morph to 28 meters matches the range of other Magicka Nightblade damage abilities such as Strife or Cripple, and makes this morph work cohesively with a ranged ability kit.

3.1.5

• The bonus damage dealt by execute abilities, such as Assassin's Blade or Reverse Slash, now works more intuitively with global damage done bonuses, such as Mighty or Minor/Major Berserk. Execute bonus damage is now multiplicative with global damage bonuses instead of additive.

3.3.5

• The damage from this ability and its morphs can now be blocked and dodged.

4.0.5

• This ability and its morphs now deal their bonus execute damage when the target is below 25% Health, down from 26% Health.

4.2.5

• Increased the cost of this ability and its morphs by approximately 30%.
  • Developer Comment: This execute was significantly cheaper than any other in the game, and was part of the reason that Nightblade DPS was higher than intended.

7.3.5

• Killer's Blade (morph): Fixed an issue where this ability could fail to be recognized as a class or execute ability in some rare cases.

8.1.5

• Killer's Blade (morph):
  • This morph now causes the execute scaling to change to a linear increase of up to 400% damage done to targets under 50% Health, rather than the static 300% damage done to targets below 25% Health.
  • The heal from this morph now scales off of your highest offensive stats, rather than Max Health.
• Impale (morph): This morph now also increases the execute scaling to 330%, up from 300%.