notes on v1.10 (beta) Assassin Blade skills

[Crystalion]

The limit makes me wonder about the whole purpose of the 2 second delay - spamming the trap would not really add to the damage (since you can only have 5 going at once)

Well, while I find recast timers annoying, I understand exactly why they are imposed, and Blade Sentry is no different than the others...

That is, imagine I could spam out 5 Sentries and then open a door my Shadow is blocking/tanking:

crowd of monsters, 5 whirling blades, 13 seconds duration, each blade hitting, say, two monsters per second (because of the tight packing) for 3/8ths of your normal weapon damage... ballpark of +4x your normal weapon damage per second for quite some time without having to do anything to keep it up. What a deal.

By throwing a recast timer in there you have to really work at achieving that including lost time in the heat of battle when you could/should be doing something else.

Clearly Blade Sentry benfits from the Cloak of Shadows -DR% motionless monsters in a blender more than the other traps (although I suspect Wake of Inferno really prefers immobile monsters).

If you could, ala the Cow Level, rely on dense monster packing with CoS control, then I imagine pumping Blade Sentry to have more in the air at once makes some sense for a specialty build (hmm, pumped CoS for *duration* and pumped Blade Sentry for *duration* doesn't sound so weird when after a few corpses you drop a couple Death Sentries).

Makes me wonder... are the rules for monsters being immune to CoS the same as immunity to blind/Dim Vision albeit that CoS doesn't suffer the nm/hell time reduction penalty?