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    How to use Silent Blades buff

    So it says that it stacks up to 5 times but I can never get it to that. Mostly it's used up at 1 stack and sometimes at 2 stacks. Is there a particular strategy to max it out or is it just a weak tier buff?

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    It's not weak, but it doesn't have to hit high stacks to be strong. The only way for it to stack is for an ability to use 0 energy that also provides it (Blindside procs, HAT are all I can think of). When you use a combo generator, it consumes ALL stacks and reduces energy based on the # you have.

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    It's just a mini-buff that helps throughout the fight. Those little energy saves (energy reduction rate varies on spec, since I'm sub it's 2 per stack) help but I never really try to pay attention to it and I recommend not really concerning yourself with it and just keep on doing dps. Just remember that it'll help you throughout the whole fight. If you're trying to max it while dpsing the target you're actually hurting your DPS.
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    It doesn't matter if you save 12 energy on 1 mutilate or 6 energy each on two mutilates. It's still 12 energy saved. It doesn't become bad just because you can't stack it high.

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    As sub, it can stack a bit. If we had spine in this tier, I bet the strat would involve swapping with a full stack or something. But mostly the fact that it is a buff is just there to make it work better- it's not really the sort of buff that can be gamed much, and combat and mutilate can't really stack it at all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Verain View Post
    As sub, it can stack a bit. If we had spine in this tier, I bet the strat would involve swapping with a full stack or something. But mostly the fact that it is a buff is just there to make it work better- it's not really the sort of buff that can be gamed much, and combat and mutilate can't really stack it at all.
    Mutilate can stack to two (mut crit and bindside dispatch crit), otherwise correct.
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    ^^^ what he said :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by gmike View Post
    So it says that it stacks up to 5 times but I can never get it to that. Mostly it's used up at 1 stack and sometimes at 2 stacks. Is there a particular strategy to max it out or is it just a weak tier buff?
    It stacking to 5 max doesn't mean that using it at 1 or 2 is a bad thing. On the contrary actually.
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    This conversation has run it's course - no one is actually disagreeing, just rephrasing or repeating (or expanding on, or clarifying) the same information, so I'm going to go ahead and close it.

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