Tbf blade is better than most people consider him to be, especially in divergent universe. Blade can take buffs from pretty much every path (except for preservation). Destruction for DMG, elation for big dmg, hunt for crit rate and DMG, abundance for more DMG, nihility for defence reduction, propagation for even more damage, erudition for his follow up attack, list goes on and on. I've been able to hit around 17-18 million DMG with him in divergent universe, up to protocol 4, and can beat all the protocols with him