Mate this guide is 100% spot on. Thank you and well done. I very recently saved up enough glory to purchase Taka and have come to the same conclusion on virtually every point you make. I originally planned to play Taka with a weapon build - which looked like it would synergise awesomely with his auto-crit and lifesteal heroic perk. However I quickly realised that I was mostly just opening with X-Retsu, using Kaiten and getting in a couple of basic attacks before getting the hell out of...

Hi, thanks for the guide. Some useful conclusions. One thing that has me stumped though is: what is the base basic attack time? That is, how long does it take a hero to execute a basic attack before any attack speed modifiers have been applied? I did some rough calcs using level 1 characters and the base attack time seemed to be around 1.6 seconds. Can anyone confirm this? Has anyone data-mined the correct figure? Is it the same for each character?