Game Design Change Acrobats "Dancing Blade"

Everyone knows assassin isn't what it once was since 2.0.
Dancing blade is one of the least useful upgrades in acrobats ability tree. It "deals damage to enemies you dash through".

Why should dancing blade be changed?
Dancing blade only deals damage to enemies you dash through, which significantly increases the chance of you getting hit when using it. It doesn't even do an ok amount of damage.

The idea
The idea is to change dancing blade's use: to gain height. If you hit someone with dancing blade, you get launched up, as if you're leapfrog from an enemy, and still deal some damage. It should have a cooldown instead of resetting once you hit the ground, because I just really don't like having to touch the ground when playing as acrobat :(

 

I think that would definitely fit the theme of Acrobat. Great suggestion!

 

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this or iado (essentially mini teleport/extremely short period of invernurability)

 

Is it just me, or has the quality of suggestions gone up since 2.0? This would be a really good idea, and would make much more sense to implement than the current Dancing Blade.

 

I think this is probably because there's a lot more freedom for ideas now with the ability tree, we're not restricted to 16 generic spells anymore so we have plenty of room to be creative

As for my thoughts on the suggestion, I did always wonder why Dancing Blade was an acrobat upgrade...you know, the Archetype that's constantly out of range from opponents and will never touch them.

I genuinely think this change makes Acrobat a lot easier to work with, and hey, they could even change it to allowing you to use Dash again while airborne with the same beneficial effect. Guess we'll have to wait and see how they handle it when the reworks get released