blade armor OR burst of speed?

[spakk]

im making a ww assassin so far these are my stats:

20 venom

20 claw mastery

20 wepon block

20 ????????????

1 dragon flight

rest in cloak of shadows

now im not shure if i want to max blade armor or brust of speed

[spakk]

refer to next tread had a computer problem

[spakk]

ill be using the following gear if it makes any differnce:

ber coa

21/41 dusk bramble

fury claw

chaos

shadowdancers

tgods for light ebsorb and str add

trangs gloves for the 25% poisin damige

1 perfect bk

1 raven frost

and mara's amulet

[Pherdnut]

From what I understand, blade armor is close to worthless if you don't focus a lot of your gear on it and even then it's a somewhat questionable choice. My dilemna would be between Fade and BoS typically, but doesn't BoS' improved attack speed affect Whirlwind? If it does the choice is pretty obvious.

[spakk]

i think your right not shure wat im thinking BoS is the best choose and ill run alot faster.

[Ferrous]

First of all, you can have BoS and Blade Armor or Fade and blade armor on at the same time. As previously mentioned, you can only have fade or BoS on, not both. As for Blade armor - only 1 point in it. It already gets a bonus from your weapon, and it can carry the venom damage. Any more points only raises the damage to a minimal extent.

[haTe™]

WTF is blade armor?!?
U ppl mean blade sheild.
with 1 point duration is too short.
8-9 points will make it usefull.
it will cary over elemental dmg and venom so if have extra
skill points its a good choise.

[Vindictive]

Firstly, with chaos and fury you will hit the last ww breakpoint without BoS so I wouldn't bother with it except for possibly hammerdins and bone necs. Go with Fade. Secondly I wouid only put 1 point into blade shield, but if you have spare points then maybe a few just to get a slightly better duration as blade shield as awful duration and you have to cast it again like every 30 seconds.
So, max fade, 1 BoS, 1 Blade Shield and rely on +skills and buffing claws.