Blue Protocol: Star ResonanceStormblade Moonstrike Spec GuideBest build and how to play the class.

Stormblade - Introduction

Stormblade - Moonstrike is one of the classes available in Blue Protocol: Star Resonance. They fulfill the DPS role while wielding a Reaper Scythe as their weapon of choice. Find their best build and how to play them properly in our guide. Difficulty:

Stormblade has also access to a second spec - Iaido Slash - and if you're looking for a guide to that spec, check here.

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07.10.2025

Overview

Best Skills

Talents

Gear

Rotation & How to Play

Introduction

Moonstrike Spec, despite being called Moonstrike, actually focuses on the

Thundercut

and

Scythe Wheel

abilities to deal the majority of its damage and to trigger its talent-based effects.

Moonstrike is a stat-hungry spec that relies on having high Haste and Luck to reach its full potential. Gameplay revolves around using the Blade Intent resource on its core ability, Thundercut, while maintaining Scythe Wheel, a giant homing spinning blade. Moonstrike’s main feature is its stat breakpoints, the main one being that at certain Haste thresholds Thundercut hits can be multiplied by up to 4 times!

When played and geared well, Moonstrike is competitive in high-end content and ends up with abundant resources to spam abilities liberally.

Ratings

AoE Damage [4/5]

ST Damage [4/5]

Utility [2/5]

Difficulty [3/5]

Pros & Cons

Pros

Good burst damage.
Exceptional endgame scaling (with breakpoints).
Edgy Scythes.

Cons

Potential relies on breakpoints.
Low party utility.
Scythe Wheel can be buggy in certain fights.

Best Skills Loadout

Basic ATK

Judgment Cut

Skill

Moonstrike

Ultimate

Oblivion Combo

Slot 1 - Mandatory

Thundercut

Slot 2 - Mandatory

Scythe Wheel

Slot 3 - Mandatory

Overdrive

Slot 4 - Mandatory

Stormflash

Resources

Blade Intent - Blade Intent is our core resource, which accumulates at a rate of 2 per second baseline and is used exclusively for our main ability -

Thundercut

. We can store 100 Blade Intent baseline, but far more with talents. Managing Blade Intent is the backbone of the Moonstrike Spec.

Thunder Sigil - Thunder Sigils (Sigils for short) are our secondary resource, generated mostly via talents. Sigils are used exclusively to activate our Special ability, Moonstrike, to recover Blade Intent and trigger talents.

Skills Explained

Fixed Skills

Judgment Cut
- Stormblade’s basic attack is only useful for Moonstrike during downtime in order to trigger one of the class's core talent effects, Piercing Slash. You’ll be spamming it during downtime for this effect, but nothing more.

Can become Divine Sickle temporarily with the talent “Divine Sickle” unlocked.

Moonstrike - The Special Skill replacing
Iaido Slash
. Requires 3 Sigils to activate, and while not a key part of our burst rotation is vital during our downtime rotation. Also activates many of our talent node synergies while generating Blade Intent for our next burst window.

Can become Chaos Breaker temporarily with the talent “Chaos Breaker” unlocked.

Oblivion Combo
-Our ultimate deals solid AoE damage and generates maximum Sigils on use. It also pulls all eligible enemies in front of you to your position, serving as a grouping tool. Use it to gather enemies or during downtime to use back-to-back Moonstrikes.

Mandatory Skills

Thundercut
- The core ability of Moonstrike we’ll be spending all our Blade Intent on. It has no CD, only requires 50 Blade Intent, makes up the majority of our damage, and has a unique scaling effect reliant on your ATK Speed. At 25% ATK Speed, this ability will double its hit count (doubling damage), at 50%, triple, and at 80% quadruple.

Can become Thundercleave temporarily with the talent “Moonstrike Delay” unlocked.

Scythe Wheel
- Spawns one (two with talents) homing blade/s on the floor that deal damage every 2 seconds (scaling with ATK Speed). Despite dealing low base damage, the consistent hits delivered will trigger many Lucky Hit effects in addition to talent procs. This is one of our core abilities, and with talents is an ability you must keep active at all times.
Overdrive
- Only used during downtime to generate Sigils after activating Piercing Slash to use more Moonstrikes. Still important to take however, to ensure smooth Blade Intent recovery during downtime.

Flex Skills (Choose 1)

Stormflash
- Our main cooldown that generates an additional 20 Blade Intent per second for the next 10 seconds. Also causes all Expertise Blade Intent spenders to trigger Lightning Strikes, dealing extra damage. Interacts with many of our best talents while also feeding us enough Blade Intent to allow us to spam Thundercut. Should be used whenever available and aligned with other cooldowns, such as Imagines when possible.

Skill Level Priority

Skill Priority
Thundercut
>>> Judgement Cut (Divine Sickle) =
Scythe Wheel
> Moonstrike (Chaos Breaker) =
Stormflash
>
Oblivion Combo
=
Overdrive
Ensure all abilities you’re using are levelled to 30 - only advancement requires consideration.

Focus on

Thundercut

above all else, as it makes up a large amount of our damage and also scales the Stormscythe and Thundercleave talents. Next advance Judgement Cut to scale the Divine Sickle talent alongside

Scythe Wheel

for consistent damage. Lastly, you can advance Moonstrike and

Stormflash

, followed by

Oblivion Combo

and

Overdrive

Best Talents

Important!
Embedded is our recommended core max-level Moonstrike talent tree containing all the specs' top talents alongside 2 flex points you can spend on player choice talents you like most.

Gameplay Altering Talents

Most of our talents just help us do what we’re already planning on doing better, but some have a drastic impact on our itemization and rotation. Below is an outline of all the gameplay-altering effects you need to be aware of in the Moonstrike Spec and Base Stormblade talents.

Base Stormblade Tree

Keen Strike - Grants Basic Attacks a 10/20% chance per hit (scaling with enemies and number of hits) to trigger Piercing Slash, dealing damage and causing our next Overdrive to generate 3 Sigils instead of 1. Fuels our ability to use Moonstrike during downtime, improving Blade Intent recovery.

Overdrive will glow purple when enhanced by Piercing Slash.

Swift - Improves our Haste% → ATK SPD% scaling from 1:0.6 → 1:1.6, making Haste even more valuable than it already is, making Thundercut breakpoints far easier to hit

Moonstrike Tree

Thunder Seed - Upon casting Thundercut, gain 2 stacks of a new resource, Charge Seeds. At 15 or above, the next Thundercut consumes them to trigger a Storm Scythe, dealing damage in an area in front of you.
Moonstrike Delay - After 5 consecutive Thundercuts, the next one evolves into Thundercleave, which deals more damage and doesn’t consume Blade Intent. Use Thundercuts in batches of 5 whenever possible.
Chaos Breaker - Grants a single use of Chaos Breaker (the evolved form of Moonstrike) after activating Stormflash. Chaos Breaker deals significant damage and immediately fully recovers our Blade Intent. Save it for when out of Blade Intent to immediately refill in order to continue Thundercut usage.
Moonstrike Sharp Strike - Causes all Moonstrike (the special skill) and Chaos Breaker hits to be guaranteed to be Critical Hits when used while we have 50 Blade Intent or higher. Maintain at least 50 Blade Intent in reserve before using these abilities to ensure this effect is always in play.
Divine Sickle - Unlocks Divine Sickle, a large and potent single-use ability that replaces your basic attack ability temporarily and will always crit. Is acquired after every 7 Storm Scythes trigger. Ensure you don’t overcap on charges of this ability and waste activations. We recommend using it as soon as available.
Lightning Flash - Doubles the hit rate of Scythe Wheels (Called Moonstrike by the game) during Stormflash. This doubling is a multiplier separate from ATK Speed, making it a potent tool for turbo-charging lucky hits and talent activations
Phantom Scythe Realm II - Thundercut now regenerates a portion of its consumed Blade Intent based on our Luck Chance. A must-have talent as it allows far more liberal usage of Thundercut. Boosts the value of luck considerably.

Player Choice Talents

Thunder Curse - The optimal use of our remaining 2 points, but requires alterations to our rotation to keep active. To get value out of this talent, we must start our rotation by using 2 Moonstrikes to establish its buff, then use a special attack at least every 10 seconds after. The easiest way to build initial stacks is to open your rotation with our ultimate, followed by 2 Moonstrikes. While technically best adds more complexity to the rotation and also eats time that could otherwise be spent using Thunder Cut.
Moonstrike Sharp Strike - A lower damage alternative to Thunder Curse, but which is much simpler to play. Keep Blade Intent above 50 when using Chaos Breaker or Moonstrike to guarantee it Critically strikes.

Recommended Moonstrike Build

Talents

If you want to create your own Talent tree, check our tool:

Talent Planner

Stat Priority

Important!
All gear & talent related info is based on extensive in-game testing, parsing, theory crafting and simulations. If you want to learn more about how damage works to understand our decisions, check out our Damage Formula Guide.

Stat Priority

Crit Rate

Haste

Luck

Mastery

Versatility

Main Stats

Luck - One of our main scaling factors. Boosts our Luck-based damage, luck hit rate, and, most importantly, is vital for triggering a huge amount of our most impactful talent tree synergies and nodes.
Haste - Haste speeds up our rotation, improves the hit rate of our Scythe Wheels, and enhances the hit count of our Thundercuts, making it a must-build stat. We recommend building enough Haste to hit above 50% Attack SPD as soon as possible, with 80% during Imagine buffs being a long-term goal, but not mandatory.

While Haste is absolutely one of our best stats, it loses value after reaching the final 80% breakpoint, with more than this being less effective.

Mastery - Mastery grants us 1.5% Final Damage Multiplier per 1% Mastery to Thundercut, Thundercleave, Stormscythe, and Divine Sickle, all of which contribute massively to our damage. Because of how strong unique multipliers are, Mastery is very strong to build towards after reaching sufficient Luck and Haste.
Versatility - This stat is always beneficial as it provides an extra multiplicative boost on top of all other DMG increases. Stats suffer diminishing returns, so a small amount of versatility is recommended.
Crit - This Spec has many means of guaranteeing critical hits on potent abilities and doesn’t have any innate Crit scaling. Regardless, Crit is still OK after factoring in diminishing returns, but is our lowest priority.

Bonus Stats

In gear slots you’re not using Set Gear in and which aren’t taken up by your class's signature Class weapon (if you have it), prioritize the following Purple Stats:

Helmet, Armour, Gloves, Boots

Agility%

Weapons & Accessories

ATK SPD% > Melee DMG% = DMG% vs. Bosses = ATK%

Set Gear

Moonstrike’s 2P set bonus is definitely worth equipping as soon as you’re able to complete Raids and is better than Purple Bonuses. The 4P, on the other hand, isn’t quite as strong and is more comparable to purple damage bonuses. Here is what they do:

2-piece SET

Thundercut DMG increases by 20%.

4-Piece SET

After Moonstrike triggers Lucky Hit, Luck Effect DMG increases by 10% for 6s.

Class weapon

Our Class weapon is also definitely worth using over purple stats. Instead of a purple stat it grants:

6% Luck (Adds right on top of your Luck Chance).
Increased stats.

Best Modules

Here are the best modules for Stormblade - Moonstrike - listed in priority order:

Attack SPD
- Best choice if it allows you to hit an additional ATK Speed breakpoint on Thundercut, but notably weaker than Elite Strike and Agility if it cannot
Elite Strike
- Always a good module for DPS, but not active outside of Elites/Bosses.
Agility Boost
- Weaker than Elite Strike, but it works everywhere and still provides benefits even when stacked with Elite Strike.
Luck Focus
- A solid upgrade for Moonstrike, but far behind Agility, Elite Strike, and Attack Speed due to it only boosting Luck damage, whereas other modules boost all our damage.

Best Battle Imagines

Important!
Some imagines will not be available to farm until all zones are unlocked - the most vital of these is
Muku Scout
.

Premium

Phantom Arachnocrab

Celestial Flier

F2P

Muku Scout [A5]

Celestial Flier [A0]

Top Gold Imagines

Celestial Flier
- The combination of massive passive +Flat Haste in addition to a +%Haste bonus on use allows us to more easily hit Thunder Cut’s 50% breakpoint, and with optimization, even the 80% breakpoint, boosting damage considerably. While definitely a top option when aiming for breakpoints loses value compared to other options when a breakpoint cannot be reached.
Phantom Arachnocrab
- Unfortunately, there is no passive +Flat Luck and +%Luck Imagine to choose from, so Phantom Arachnocrab’s +Flat Mastery and +%Mastery on use cooldown is our next best option when it comes to Gold Imagines at lower advancement levels.

Top Purple Imagines

Muku Scout [A5]
- Muku Scout 5 grants us a passive 15% ATK provided we are consistently hitting attacks. Upon activation, it doubles the stacks, giving a tremendous 30% ATK buff, amplifying the entirety of our damage. A generic, accessible, and exceptionally strong option.
Brigand Scout Leader [A5]
- Brigand Scout Leader grants 10% Agility passively and a further 20% temporarily on use, which together form a tremendous damage increase. While powerful for Agility classes, it is specific to exactly that attribute, making it a less flexible investment than more generic options.
Shadow Captain [A5]
- Shadow Captain provides lots of Expertise Skill DMG%, so whilst niche, this Imagine is one of our strongest Epic options. A large portion of our damage is Expertise Damage, which Shadow Cap boosts by up to 47%.
Muku Vanguard [A5]
- Muku Vanguard is the generic Thunder DMG% Imagine, granting 7.5% passive Thunder DMG% and a further 16% on use. While solid does not compete with higher multiplier options like Shadow Captain, Muku Scout, or Brigand Scout Leader, while also being limited to only being used on Thunder classes.

Best Consumables

Culinary

Painfly - Grants Elite/Boss DMG% as well as a strong amount of ATK, making it the superior choice.
Meatfish Skewer - More ATK than Painfly, but without the Elite/Boss DMG%, it is less powerful.

Alchemy

Lightning Serum - The best and only choice for our Alchemy consumable when aiming for maximum damage.

Best Gems

Sapphire - Agility (Haste) - Best until reaching the 50% ATK SPD Breakpoint. Luck is preferable after this point until you can reach the 80% breakpoint with cooldowns active or at all times.
Diamond - Agility (Luck) - Best until reaching the 50% ATK SPD Breakpoint. Alternative and best once our Attack SPD breakpoint has been met.

How To Play

Burst Rotation

Our goal with our burst rotation is to execute as many

Thundercut

and Divine Sickles as possible during

Stormflash

’s duration while also ensuring

Scythe Wheel

is active before starting.

Before starting, ensure you’ve used

Scythe Wheel

recently enough that it won't time out during the duration of

Stormflash

. Next, use your Imagines, then activate

Stormflash

and begin spamming

Thundercut

until Divine Sickle is available or you run out of Blade Intent. Upon reaching zero Blade Intent, use Chaos Breaker and continue the same rotation until

Stormflash

and your Imagine’s cooldowns have finished. Here is the rotation breakdown:

Use
Scythe Wheel
Use Imagines if available
Use
Stormflash
Use
Thundercut
until, Divine Sickle is available, then use it
Use Chaos Breaker when less than 50 Blade Intent
Continue until out of Blade Intent again or Imagine Duration ends.

Downtime Rotation

While waiting for Stormflash, our objective is to recover Blade Intent through the use of Moonstrike, ready for our next burst rotation - ideally, you’ll recover all 400 in time. In addition to this, you must also maintain Scythe Wheel at all times.

Coming out of our burst window, we’ll have a full 6 Sigils thanks to Breath of Mark, dump these immediately into two Moonstrikes, then, if available, follow up with

Oblivion Combo

to gain them right back and execute two more Moonstrikes, totalling 120 Blade Intent immediately. After this, repeatedly perform the sequence of:

Judgment Cut

s until Sharp Strike triggers,

Overdrive

to consume the effect, followed by Moonstrike to spend the Sigils. Here is the rotation summed up:

After Burst

Moonstrike x2
Oblivion Combo
(If Available)
Moonstrike x 2

Repeat Until

Stormflash

Judgment Cut
until Sharp Strike
Overdrive
Moonstrike

Note
Even if you aren’t currently at 400 Blade Intent and
Stormflash
is available, it is still recommended you use it immediately unless critically low on Blade Intent for some reason.
If you, for some reason, reach 400 Blade Intent well before
Stormflash
is available, you can optionally choose to spend some of it on
Thundercut
s to prevent wastage.

Auto Viability

Full Auto

We don’t recommend playing Moonstrike on full auto as the AI favors using

Overdrive

and cooldowns at inopportune moments, wasting valuable time.

Semi Auto

More effectively, but still not optimally, Moonstrike can be played on semi-auto. If doing so, we recommend removing Overdrive, Oblivion Combo, and your Battle Imagines from the auto settings in favor of using them manually. While semi-auto is usable and likely an upgrade for some players, it is not optimal in endgame.

Note
Auto-play does not dodge attacks or respect mechanics for you; you will have to manually play rotations in endgame content. It’s very likely that playing on auto will cause you to be hit far more often by attacks and boss mechanics; use it with caution.