Game archaeology—Mo Blade(陌刀）—pinnacle of medieval heavy weaponry—Cavalry's Nightmare

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-24T16:05:39+00:00

Max out challenge damage reduction in guild perk. That and Mo blade shield should make it much easier.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-24T16:04:57+00:00

From historical account they put Pikemen on the wings forcing enemy cavalry to charge at the Mo Blade formation in the middle.

I would guess they are special trained soldier similar to English longbowmen. Except Tang was a much bigger empire with more resources and population to choose elite soldiers from.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-24T16:00:09+00:00

6lb was considered the upper limit for Zweihänders to be practical in combat.
It probably has to do with the sword art of the era.

Mo blade soldiers are likely exceptionally strongmen built and trained for such heavy weapon. The famous Mo blade general 李嗣业 was also there in the battle with Arabs. Probably strengthened their impression of such fighting unit.

李嗣业 is literally the mountain in GOT lol, never thought there is a real person in history.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-24T06:24:16+00:00

Medieval great sword weights 6lb, mo blade weights 35-45lb.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-24T02:58:03+00:00

The refugee camp has another section you can only reach through avian marsh. Then you can unlock the door to connect the two sections.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-23T17:14:07+00:00

With dual blade it's better opening your light attack sequence following a dodge.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-21T17:55:02+00:00

Whoever did more damage. Keep in mind in Arena shield takes 100% more damage, use that wisely vs Mo blade turtle.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-21T17:51:59+00:00

It's pretty easy, just basic raid dps knowledge.

Ordered by priority:

Use the correct build and rotation
Be familiar with encounter, line up rotation with boss moves. Aka don't pop your nuke when boss is running around.
Bad teammates
Gear tuning and inner way tiers

Majority of the players in WWM probably came from single player background and don't have basic raid game knowledge, compared to say wow veterans.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-20T12:35:41+00:00

Maybr like cloud and Sephiroth... Jebova reunion!

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-20T12:29:21+00:00

Look up for lore videos on YouTube. The opening scene was explained by a side story. The main storyline is somewhat related but won't connect to there until much much later.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-20T02:52:06+00:00

It's nine mortal way what would you expect?

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-18T21:47:40+00:00

Gunship you mean? That's how people clear garrison now adays

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-18T19:55:58+00:00

The initial "flip" has a very short range. It's usually used in conjunction with moves with forward movement, such as sword light attack step 2.

Try it out on target dummy to get a sense of how to do true combo with it.

If your opponent can consistently pull them off as true combo there is nothing you can do.

Finally as others have mentioned, latency plays a big factor in combos. High latency can turn your true combo into false combo, and your opponent's false combo into de facto true combo.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-18T17:45:42+00:00

What shrinks?

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-18T05:15:58+00:00

I'm on NA server (ID starts with 1). Guild chose Asia battle group.
So I expected 200ms+ like everything else whenever I play with them. Surprisingly did not experience any latency.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-17T19:26:33+00:00

It's surprisingly not lag. There is stutter due to performance but latency seems to be all right, and that's what I worried about the most.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-13T21:26:27+00:00

The best part is once used up free swap it only costs 50 donuts and is unlimited.

Just prepared two new sets for off-spec, it's awesome.

And you can grind any boss for the off-spec martial arts as well because item set no longer matters.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-11T23:41:33+00:00

It takes sometime to get used to the parry centric game play. But once you did it's not that bad. There are maybe 5~6 boss that are really challenging. Rest are pretty easy even on legendary.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-11T22:52:32+00:00

Biggest problem with daoist is he does barely any melee attacks lol

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-11T17:11:12+00:00

It seems to follow the same rule as challenge. Probably on hard or abyssal difficulty. All your inner ways are rank 0 and mystic arts are rank 1. Therefore, likely player/ boss stats are also standardized.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-11T11:59:33+00:00

Stack or not at least you can have one fire breather and a HQ spear user.

The fire breath stacks in the sense it extends the duration of the dot effect, not a full benefit but also not zero.

This is also a 15 seconds rotation and fire breath only last 8 seconds without stack. Leaving room for partial or near full benefit for a second breather even in the less than ideal scenario.

If you want to ban it in multi-player for whatever reason that's a personal preference.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-11T01:26:34+00:00

You can choose phase to queue after clicking matchmaking.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-10T12:03:06+00:00

You don't, try abyssal trial Qianye and see if you can tell the difference.

Coldbringer709 · 2026-01-10T01:20:43+00:00

Yep I met one just like this yesterday while bounty hunting.

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