Blade Flurry

Blade Flurry is a channeling melee attack.

Skill functions and interactions

• Stages: Each attack, while channeling, applies a single stage that grants 20% more damage, up to 120% more damage total at 6th stage.
• Dual wielding: The skill alternates between the main hand and the offhand for each hit.
• AoE: Modifiers to area radius, such as and , affect both the radius of the main hit and the radius of the explosion caused by it.
• : The skill cannot be supported by Multistrike.
• See Channelling for more information.
• While both and can support Blade Flurry independently, they won't work in tandem; neither will trigger.

DPS Calculation

Blade Flurry's tooltip is not too helpful, because it shows Average Damage and doesn't account for stage bonus. Here is how you can find out your actual DPS:

Base*1.6*2*(1+0.75*Stage)

where Base is the base damage given by gem level, and Stage ranges from 0.2 to 1.2 depending on which stage level you usually reach before releasing. This formula also assumes your return strike(s) can hit an enemy; remove the 2 in the middle if you want to know what happens when your return strikes don't hit an enemy.

For example, at gem level 20, with "perfect channeling," as of patch 2.6:

.564*1.6*2*(1+0.75*1.2) = 3.42912, or 343% weapon damage per second. Note that your DPS will be slightly lower in game because you cannot reach perfect channeling, only get very close.

Gem level progression

Level				Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	42	29	32%	32%	0	0
2	31	46	32	33%	32.7%	199345	199345
3	34	50	35	33%	33.4%	285815	485160
4	37	54	37	34%	34.1%	401344	886504
5	40	58	40	35%	34.7%	554379	1440883
6	42	60	42	35%	35.4%	477437	1918320
7	44	63	44	36%	36.1%	583786	2502106
8	46	66	46	37%	36.8%	710359	3212465
9	48	68	48	37%	37.5%	1355511	4567976
10	50	71	49	38%	38.2%	1138877	5706853
11	52	74	51	39%	38.8%	1368233	7075086
12	54	76	53	40%	39.5%	1638338	8713424
13	56	79	55	40%	40.2%	1956648	10670072
14	58	82	57	41%	40.9%	3655184	14325256
15	60	84	59	42%	41.6%	3017327	17342583
16	62	87	60	42%	42.3%	7759995	25102578
17	64	90	62	43%	42.9%	15138193	40240771
18	66	92	64	44%	43.6%	26083825	66324596
19	68	95	66	44%	44.3%	62620247	128944843
20	70	98	68	45%	45%	211708088	340652931
21	72	100	70	46%	45.7%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	46%	46.4%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	47%	47.1%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	48%	47.7%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	48%	48.4%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	49%	49.1%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	50%	49.8%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	50%	50.5%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	51%	51.2%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	52%	51.8%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	52%	52.2%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	53%	52.5%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	53%	52.9%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	53%	53.2%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	54%	53.6%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	54%	53.9%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	54%	54.2%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	55%	54.6%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	55%	54.9%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	55%	55.3%	N/A	N/A

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Blade Flurry.

Name		Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Blade Flurry Damage 1	66	25% increased Blade Flurry Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Blade Flurry Damage 2	75	40% increased Blade Flurry Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Blade Flurry Dodge Per Stack 1	66	6% chance to Dodge Attack Hits while at maximum Blade Flurry stages	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Blade Flurry Dodge Per Stack 2	75	9% chance to Dodge Attack Hits while at maximum Blade Flurry stages	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Blade Flurry Area Of Effect 1	66	16% increased Blade Flurry Area of Effect	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Blade Flurry Area Of Effect 2	75	24% increased Blade Flurry Area of Effect	helmet 100 default 0

Version history

Version	Changes
2.6.0	Damage reduced by 18% at level 1 of the gem, scaling to a 15% reduction at level 20 of the gem. Radius has gained 2 units on all of its ranges. (The damage area has increased from 12 to 14 units, the channelling targeting area has increased from 15 to 17 units and the release targeting area has increased from 17 to 19 units.) No longer gain increased area of effect radius.
2.5.0	Blade Flurry's "More attack speed" modifier has been reduced from 65% more to 60% more attack speed at all levels. Blade Flurry's targeting range has been reduced by 16.6%, and the damage radius of slashes has been reduced by 14.2%.
2.4.2	Added new Dexterity/Intelligence skill - Blade Flurry: Repeatedly strike at enemies in a circle in front of you while channelling, dealing damage to and around the struck enemy. The damage is continually boosted while channelling. You unleash an additional strike for each stage reached once the channelling ends. Requires a Dagger, Claw or One-Handed Sword.