Demon Blade: Skill Translations and Info

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Fundamental Skills
Dash: Must have
Basic Attack: Not really worth considering since none of your skills make use of it, unless you rather dash attack everything to death.
Q Dodge: Never hurts to spend the point.

1st Skill
십도, 열참 - Dark Art: True Heat
Cooldown: 3.8 seconds (No Change LvMAX)
Lv1 Damage:
MaxLv:
Type: Slash, Dark
Simple Two slash skill. This skill can be followed up with Terminate or Reversal.
While simple, this skill is actually damaging when maxed considering the addition of the two context skills, doing up to 10k% damage.
Because of this the skill can be considered for maxing or leaving at a low level.

1st Awakening:십도, 열참 ㅡ 개진
Gives the skill a wider range. Does not affect damage.

2nd Awakening: 십도, 열참 ㅡ 열창
Slash Resistance Debuff
Inflicts the enemy with -3% Slash Resistance debuff. Effect increases per level.

2nd Skill
파, 단검기 - Wave: Dagger Storm
Cooldown:
Lv1 Damage:
MaxLv:
Type: Slash, Dark
Demon Stigma debuff
Uses the demon blade's influence to fire out two quick slashes that drags smaller enemies away for several hits.

At level 50 this skill infects enemies with Demon Stigma.

1st Awakening: 파.단검기 ㅡ 폭
Transforms the skill into a narrow range explosive shockwave. The explosive strike of the shockwave is x1.3 damage of the original skill multiplier.

2nd Awakening: 파, 단검기 ㅡ 속
Increases the traveling speed and distance of this skill.
Original damage still applys.

3rd Skill
발도, 일참 - Battojutsu: One Strike
Cooldown:
Lv1 Damage:
MaxLv:
Type: Slash, Dark
Single press skill that charges the sword in preparation stance, unleashing a devastating slash that destroys Super Armor.
This skill also provides Super Armor.

1st Awakening: 발도, 일참 ㅡ 반격
Hold to charge attack, slashing and destroying super armor of all enemies around you.

2nd Awakening: 발도, 일참 ㅡ 납도
Adds a second slash that deals half damage of the initial slash by standing still after the first strike. This skill can be quickly canceled at any time after first strike.

4th Skill
파, 혼검기 - Wave: Soul Storm
Cooldown:
Lv1 Damage:
MaxLv:
Type: Slash, Dark
5 press skill that sends out a barrage of soul blades.

1st Awakening: 파, 혼검기 ㅡ 속
After the first slash, following slashes dramatically increase in speed.

2nd Awakening: 파, 혼검기 ㅡ 천공
Enables this skill to be used in the air, also retaining old ground skill.
While in the air, fires 3 soul blades in a horizontal line down at the enemies.

5th Skill
연계, 섬광 - Chain: Flash
Lv1 Damage: 629%
MaxLv:1
Type: Contextual, Slash, Dark
When dash attacking an enemy, press Q to attack again and dash through them. Useful in certain occasions.

6th Skill
십도, 종단 - Dark Art: Terminate
Lv1 Damage: 449%
MaxLv:1
Type: Contextual, Slash, Dark
Press Q after the initial strike of True Heat to follow up with an upwards slash that sends smaller enemies into the air.

7th Skill
검, 섬관광 - Sword: Mirage Strike
Cooldown:
Lv1 Damage:
MaxLv:
Type: Slash, Dark
3 press skill that dashes through the enemy on each hit. very fluid and fast skill that can be used for evasion purposes around enemies.

1st Awakening: 검, 섬관광 ㅡ 휘
Changes your Q for 연계, 섬광 - Chain: Flash into a slash attack of this skill type. The damage is 60% less of the original skill.

2nd Awakening: 검, 섬관광 ㅡ 속
Movement Speed Buff: 3%
Max Stack: 3
Provides a 3% movement speed buff that can be stacked up to 3 times, the maximum of 3 hits.

8th Skill
십도, 횡참 - Dark Art: True Reversal
Lv1 Damage: 449%
MaxLv:1
Type: Contextual, Slash, Dark
Press E after the initial strike of True Heat to deal a super armor-breaking slash.

9th Skill
파, 단검기 강화 - Wave: Dagger Storm Power
MaxLv:1
Type: Passive
Enables enemies to become context sensitive to Right click.
Note that this does not work on bosses.


10th Skill
특수기: 마검, 섬광 - Special skill: Demon Flash
Cooldown: 20 seconds
Lv1 Damage:
MaxLv:
Type: Slash, Dark
When an enemy has been knocked silly, Right Click to teleport and slice through the nearest context enemy.

EX Skill 1
십도, 얼참 - Dark Art: True Heat EX
Consumes 1 EX Gauge
Cooldown:
Lv1 Damage:
MaxLv:
Type:
While the damage is good, it's preferable to have 1 point in for invinc frame purposes.

11th Skill
혼명검, 천 - Souls of Darkness: Thousand Storm
Cooldown:
Lv1 Damage:
MaxLv:
Type: Strike, Dark
Demon Stigma debuff
Hold the skill to Slam the Katana into the earth, knocking up smaller enemies and unleashing a fury of Souls to strike.

At level 50 this skill infects enemies with Demon Stigma.

1st Awakening: 연옥파, 추 ㅡ 진멸
Slow Debuff
Causes demonic stigma from the attack to reduce enemy movement speed by -30%.

2nd Awakening: 연옥파, 추 ㅡ 연환세
Cuts down the trigger time to go right into the Soul summoning attack.

12th Skill
연옥파, 추 - Purgatory Wave: Addition
Cooldown:
Lv1 Damage:
MaxLv:
Type: Slash, Dark
Charges the skill to unleash a wide horizontal Soul slash, knocking enemies away.
This skill can be quick cast into a black Soul Slash that retains full damage by following up after using 파, 혼검기 - Wave: Soul Storm.

1st Awakening: 연옥파, 추 ㅡ 진멸
Allows you to hold and charge the skill, doubling the reach and width of the Soul slash.

2nd Awakening: 연옥파, 추 ㅡ 연환세
Demon Stigma debuff
After using Wave: Soul Storm to quick cast, the black soul slash will add Stigma per hit. Very useful for the Inner Eye buff.

EX Skill 2
광란혼, 멸 - Frenzy Storm: Destruction EX
Consumes 2 EX Gauge
Cooldown:
Lv1 Damage:
MaxLv:
Type: Strikewhat, Dark
The power of this EX makes it a potential for maxing, though it's also preferable to leave at 1 for invinc frame purposes.

13th Skill
광란혼, 멸 - Frenzy Storm: Destruction
Cooldown:
Lv1 Damage:
MaxLv:
Type: Slash, Dark
Demon Stigma debuff
Does a single slash, if the skill hits, then it's following up by a burst of dark energy that damages large enemies and smaller enemies caught up in it.
If you miss, the skill is wasted outright.

This skill can be canceled after the initial slash and the aura will still spawn and damage enemies.

This skill infects enemies with Demon Stigma.

1st Awakening: 광란혼, 멸 ㅡ 낙인강화
Defense debuff
Final hit of Darkness Aura lowers the defense of enemies. Duration is approx. 20 seconds

2nd Awakening: 광란성파혼
Frees and quick casts the Dark Aura, causing it to become larger and slowly suck in enemies.  Much more efficient in adding Demon Stigma.

14th Skill
천명도, 몰 - Thousand Souls: Strike
Cooldown:
Lv1 Damage:
MaxLv:
Type: Slash, Dark
Hold the skill to charge, sucking in enemies towards you. When the sheath of your katana flashes, release to deal x1.5 damage.

This skill provides Super Armor.

1st Awakening: 폭풍도, 참
When holding the skill, Creates a torrential storm that damages enemies as they're being sucked into you. Timing damage bonus (x1.5 katana flash modifier) will no longer be applied.

2nd Awakening: 천명도, 몰 ㅡ 흡멸
Overall damage is increased by 5%lol

 15th Skill
천십자참, 극 - Thousand Cross: Tragedy
Cooldown:
Lv1 Damage:
MaxLv:
Type: Slash, Dark
Fires a Soul slash that goes a distance and stops when it hits an enemy. Pressing the skill again at any time during the initial strike or after it hits the enemy will make your character jump to the slash and strike again.

While charging is jumping/attacking, you gain Super Armor.

1st Awakening: 천십자참, 극 ㅡ 일격
Shortens  the skill into a quick X Slash.

2nd Awakening: 천십자참, 극 ㅡ 멸갑
When this skill is used on enemies with Super Armor on, damage penalty is replaced with a x1.5 damage multiplier.

16th Skill
귀속잔영, 윤 - Attribute Zero: Yun
Cooldown:
Lv1 Damage:
MaxLv:
Type: Slash, Dark
Deals a series of lightning-quick slashes. This skill provides Super Armor.

1st Awakening: 귀속잔영, 윤 ㅡ 일식
Range and duration of slashes increases.
Damage per hit is matched to the extended duration, making each hit relatively weaker.

2nd Awakening: 귀속잔영, 윤 ㅡ 이식
Overall damage is increased by halving the range of the slashes.
The short range makes this awakening uncomfortable.

17 Skill
천도승천, 참 - Ascension: Truth
Cooldown:
Lv1 Damage:
MaxLv:
Type: Slash, Dark
6 press skill that lifts your enemy off into the air with a final slash that turns the screen black, dealing massive damage.

1st Awakening:
Cuts the skill down to just the final strike, retaining final damage but reducing overall damage as previous hits are no longer counted.

2nd Awakening:
Changes the skill into a very powerful single press 9 hit skill that provides invincibility frame for the duration and much more damage.


18th Skill
칼벼리기-전이 - Blade Mastery - Transition
Cooldown: 60 seconds
MaxLv:1
Type: Buff
Provides the effect of Blade Mastery to the party.

19th Skill
귀도흡인, 삭 - Soul Absorb: Destroy
Cooldown:
Lv1 Damage:
MaxLv:
Type: Slash, Dark
2 press skill that hits 3 times. Sucks in enemies and blasts them with a wave of Demonic Energy, second press finishing them off with a powerful slash.

1st Awakening:
Changes the skill into a 1 press two-hit skill.
Sucking in enemies Infects them with a Ghost, causing them to become unable to avoid Slash-Type attacks. This would mean 100% accuracy when using Slash-type skills for a brief period of time, but the effect of this skill is questionable to how efficient it really is.

Some state that the effect lasts just long enough for the second strike of the skill to take effect, though most people are unsure.

2nd Awakening:
Increases the range in which enemies are sucked in. Definitely not worth the 50 AP.

20th Skill
칼벼리기 - Blade Mastery
Cooldown: 60 seconds
MaxLv:1
Accuracy: +10
Base Critical Rate: +10%
Duration: 15 seconds
Type: Buff
Sharpens the blade with the power of Hell itself, increasing accuracy and Critical.

21st Skill
발도검 특화 - Battojutsu Mastery
MaxLv:1
Base Critical Rate: +3%
Base Atk Speed: +3%
Type: Passive
Gain deeper relation with your Demon edge, permanently improving base Crit rate and aspd.

22nd Skill
마검, 개안 - Demon: Inner Eye
Cooldown: 60 seconds
Demon Stigma Buff: Power dependant on enemy types and intensity of Stigma Stack
Duration: Dependant on intensity of Demon Stigma absorbed
MaxLv:1
Type: Buff
Inner Eye Buff: Feeds off Demon Stigma to improve stats
After awakening, several skills can influence enemies with Demon Stigma, which your Demon blade desires. When a lot of enemies are afflicted with Demon Stigma, or a boss has a high Stigma stack, Press this skill to awaken the Demon Blade for an improved stat boost.

The effect of the boost depends on the type of enemy you absorb Stigma from.
Basic Boost is Attack Speed and Movement speed.
Enemy Types: Normal, Greater, Boss Mobs.
The Duration of the boost depends on the intensity (stack #, mob #, mob type) you absorb Stigma from.

Example: 20 stack stigma on a single normal mob enemy is roughly 15% aspd and mspd up for 15 seconds.

Skills that infect the enemy with Demon Stigma:
파, 단검기 - Wave: Dagger Storm
혼명검, 천 - Souls of Darkness: Thousand Storm
광란혼, 멸 - Frenzy Storm: Destruction (EX does not apply)
귀도흡인, 삭 - Soul Absorb: Destroy
연옥파, 추 - Purgatory Wave: Addition (2nd Awakening only)