Reposting to proper topic tree.
Is incredibly lackluster. There is 0 reason to take almost any of the Iron Blade nodes and it takes 50% of the real estate of the skill tree. Iron Blade scales with the more nodes on Vengeance now which is nice but besides the proc on hit of Vengeance there is no incentive to actually take any other nodes on the bottom of the tree.
I main Vengeance as my Paladin skill of choice and am honestly just let down by the lack of options in the tree. Maybe something like a node that converts Vengeance and Riposte to Fire, a connecting node that converts Iron Blade as well, a base crit chance node, maybe Iron Blade is a sweeping attack instead of a launched projectile. Iron Blade does no damage but applies ailments at 2x rate instead. Iron Blade has increased proc chance based on Bleed/Ignite stacks on the enemy. Ripose deals more damage but prevents less.
There’s a ton of room to make the skill really cool besides just attack fast to take less damage and also shred a little bit. Especially with Renegades it seems almost pointless to have the extra skill points as you just take a couple extra points in shred and grab Iron Blade just because.
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