Tormented Warblades

Tormented Warblades

When demon hunters first came into being, Keya made a lot of mistakes with her warblade talents and traits. She wasted a lot of artifact power on things that were not central to getting the best setup. Amusingly, it took the fishing artifact, which is a much simpler model than the weapon artifact, before keya started to understand somewhat how it works. She thought that she had to find things like Soul Carver, etc, in order to add them to her weapon. It finally dawned on her that the links would fill themselves in as she completed prior pieces of the puzzle.

Now that her main fishing goals are complete, she can focus more on her blades. Below is the "perfect" artifact map for a demon hunter. As you will see below, Keya's real lineup looks nothing like it.

Keya's Artifact Weapon: Soul Carver --> Tormented Souls --> Shatter the Souls (2/3)
And that's as far as Keya got with the "right" layout.
So, Keya has to pretty much ignore what she's done before and follow the correct thread from now on. Once she has enough AP to get Souls (3/3) she can then go after the next in line, which is Siphon Power. I assume, based on the fishing artifact, that Siphon Power will light up once Souls is completed. It takes a whopping 8,000 plus AP for each rank.

Keya grudgingly agreed to also show the many things she did wrong, wasting AP that should have been spent better: She  needs 14 ranks to get back on schedule. That is a huge outlay of AP she must earn (126,000). On the positive side, all those ranks she's already spent on the backside of the map now come into play. Once she's reached Charred Warblades, she will need only two more ranks to completely fill her artifact weapon, because she has already spent 13, albeit out of sequence. In the end, when all the holes are filled, it won't matter how she got there.

There's one question she's not sure of. She has a bunch of relics in her bank. Is there any way to use them? I read somewhere that I should always use the highest level relic regardless of the specific traits. I tried to replace a 783 relic with a 785, but learned that relics are of different types and I can only change like relic types. I hope I have that right.

So, as with fishing, Keya's plan is to collect as much AP as she can to fill out her weapon. Fishing up AP is pretty easy compared with killing things, but then Keya greatly prefers to be killing things. Blood stinks less than fish guts.