When should I buy the orange blade?

[Monkerlotus]

Thorn liro rep is very easy to build up, especially in the higher ego levels like 3,000+. Just buy and enjoy the sword, It'll deal enough dmg for quite a while, by the time it is under performing, you'll be able to slap the arenas apart blindfolded and can easily get another.

[Xaat Xuun]

What about the ego recharge perks. If one says do damage and the other says when you get a kills, do they stack?

I don't use the ego recharge perks, but that's my choice . .. I never felt they helped me that much, or at least never noticed that they had
I'm still testing what works best for me, I really miss using something like ACT to optimize my builds. So much easier to track my dps and see what helps or does not help.
I need to do a serious peek-see what I have . . , , haven't been keeping track to any changes I've done, but I think I just recently swapped Detachment for Juggernaut, At ego42xx I only have troubles in TL 10, TL9 I'm pretty much boarder line, but TL 10 I'm a feeling a little weak , I feel Melee works out great in the Grid Arkbreaks, the doggies are no problem as long as your at their side hitting their crit spot.

I still find it weird and out of control using Blades, still my favorite is the Amakuni

[Deunan]

What about the ego recharge perks. If one says do damage and the other says when you get a kills, do they stack?

Yes they stack but Blood Lust has a 3 second cool down time. There are two recharge perks for kills, one for kills in general and one for melee kills. They all stack.

[Wraither]

Never.

It's stats are not that much better than blue one and costs a lot to keep it upgraded - unless you are 5k EGO i guess, then it is time to buy it

[Xaat Xuun]

I'm going to give this a try test melee - Loadout on Defiance Data
I didn't realize it, but my melee build was all defense, never paid much attention, no wonder I could stand in the middle and barely do damage, and not lose much shield

I've been running with a Hurricane Regenerator so haven't really know how much difference it'll be, this 7th shield (forgot the name) gives a +50% melee damage for 10 secs, other then that, it's about same as the hurricane.
so will give this loadout a try, next time I log in my main, I think I forgot to swap something
but at the same time it's tough for me to remove survivability perks . .

[Darien]

When should I buy the orange blade?

How soon do you want to get killed?

Swords are bad. If anyone tells you otherwise, ask them to show their sword to a Volge Viscera (or any enemy which is larger than they are) and to report their results.

[Terrato137]

How soon do you want to get killed?

Swords are bad. If anyone tells you otherwise, ask them to show their sword to a Volge Viscera (or any enemy which is larger than they are) and to report their results.

[Darien]

So what happened?

[PTR47]

How soon do you want to get killed?

Swords are bad. If anyone tells you otherwise, ask them to show their sword to a Volge Viscera (or any enemy which is larger than they are) and to report their results.

Swords are awesome. I use them all the time against Mutants, Raiders, and 99ers. They suck on Dark Matter, Hellbugs, Scrappers, Infected, and Volge.

I have also finished "Sutro Tower" and "Danger at Diablo" using only a blade, just for funsies.

[Bentu]

Go ahead and buy it but don't us arc forge to upgrade it. Just keep doing the thorn weekly/dailies to get rep to replace it.