Blade Warp

Hurl an astral weapon that teleports you to its impact.

Blade Warp is a Warlock attack (Eldritch Skills, level 18, requires Echoing Strike, unlocks Mirrored Blades). It needs a melee weapon (requiresweapon 1, item type mele) and throws a lobbed missile (lob 1, bladewarp): where it lands you arrive, and the landing explodes with magic damage in a 4-yard radius. The numbers that decide it are the explosion, 101–103 magic damage at level 20, and the casting delay, 0.8 seconds at every level.

The numbers

• Mana is a flat 15 at every level (mana 15, lvlmana 0, manashift 8), so it is left out of the table.
• Magic damage comes from EMin 8 / EMax 10 and their brackets, which are the same for both ends: +3 a level to level 8, +5 to 16, +8 past that (the Lev3, Lev4 and Lev5 columns are all 8). Level 1 is 8–10, level 10 is 39–41, level 20 is 101–103, level 30 is 181–183. The range is only ever 2 points wide.
• Casting delay is localdelay 20, 20 frames at 25 frames a second: 0.8 seconds at every level, so it is stated here rather than in the table.
• Radius is aurarangecalc = par1, Param1 (4, "Explosion Radius"): 4 yards at every level. The tooltip's radius line reads the row's len column, which this row does not fill, so the radius comes from Param1 alone. Param2 ("Explosion Radius logorithmic cap") is empty.

The damage line reads lvl, so +skills from items count; the synergy term reads blvl.

How it works

The missile is bladewarp, a lobbed projectile: it travels to the point you aimed at rather than until it hits something, and the impact is where you teleport to and where the magic explosion happens. The explosion is elemental damage of the magic type (EType mag), so it goes through the target's magic resistance and nothing else, see Dealing Elemental Damage; the row has no ToHit column and no SrcDam, so no weapon damage and no attack rating check is involved. The attack-family calcs on the row are the shared ones of the Warlock's weapon skills: calc1 "Damage %" and calc2 "Flat Damage" are 0, calc3 ("Attack Speed %, unusable") and calc4 ("% Damage Dealt as Elemental") are 0, calc5 ("Amount of attacks") is 1, and calc6 reads Mirrored Blades' calc6, the "total damage % applied to attacks after the first one"; with Param11 at 0 the row does not restrict that to later attacks. Param3 (1) is the table's "Mirrored Blade Projectile Count Synergy", and Param12 (0) says the missiles use no separate cast ID.

Blade Warp is both a teleport and an attack: the 0.8-second casting delay is on the row, so it cannot be chained the way a Sorceress's Teleport can.

Synergies and +skills

Two damage synergies, each +24% magic damage per hard point (Param8, EDmgSymPerCalc): Echoing Strike and Mirrored Blades. Both read blvl, so only hard points count. Blade Warp in turn feeds Eldritch Blast (+50% magic damage per hard point, that row's Param8), Echoing Strike and Mirrored Blades. There is no mastery line on the row.

Against players

A player's hit on another player is cut to 17% of its value (difficultylevels.txt PlayerDamagePercentVSPlayer) before anything else, see Player versus Player; the explosion's magic damage is cut the same way. The teleport has no player value to cut.

Build notes

• The explosion is 101–103 at level 20 and the row's own growth is 8 a level there; the two +24%-a-point synergies add 48% per paired hard point, which is more than a level buys.
• Mana is a flat 15 and the casting delay a flat 0.8 seconds; neither changes with level or +skills.
• Levels past 20 come from +skills and keep adding 8 a level to both ends: level 30 is 181–183.