imagine , you are partying up with 3 more people , one of them have a telos boltace , the other has a simulor , and the 3 th one is using an ember WoF , in this kind of situation your ash will do little to nothing . Me for exemple , i am a heavy telos boltace user , you will have no chance whatsoever to use bladestorm near me for sure , by the time you have 10 mobs marked i already spun to win them away not saying that every situation will be like that , this is a possible worst case scenario , but still , there is alot of stuff in the game that is much faster than the reworked bladestorm , simply because mark mode require aim , and multiple marksThere is very little you can do if you have a party that is tryharding that badly , as any frame , unless you get on their level of cheese . Go in with a Soma , you gun down one enemy , the MirageSimulor clears the room . Bring your Vauban to a Defense mission , turns out you get to do nothing because a Resonating Quake Banshee and her pocket EV have locked down the whole map . With good twitch aiming to sweep marks and a long line of sight you could probably still get a lot of targets with the new Blade Storm . Of course it won ' t stand up to max AoE nukes like a Telos Boltace , but not much does . And there is the other thing , why would you aim at things , mark things , if you can just . shoot them ? You don ' t have to track the target over the weapon ' s kill time , and it does Finisher damage so you don ' t need to care about armor , shields or resistances . In Augmented ShieldsArmor Sorties , WeaponRestriction Sorties , Grineer Eximus Strongholds , it could be more potent than using your weapon . But , after using bladestorm mode you still sit there and wait for it to happen , even if you dont mark so many mobsThis is an issue . Sad they didn ' t address this . it failed , it became a nerf just for the sake of nerfing , but this could be fixed , instead of teleporting for the kill , maybe send clones or shadows to do the job while you still can shoot and do stuff ? idk . People complained , he got nerfed . It ' s pretty obvious that a large or at least a very vocal chunk of the community , for various reasons , utterly hated Ash .