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This is a guide to stamina sorcerer for the Dark Brotherhood patch.

*This build is a work in progress, but an initial bloodspawn solo (no warhorn, spc, pa, only buff not by me was puncture) pulled 31.3k dps. Makes the fight a 41 second fight.

The goal of this build is to create a very competitive stamina sorcerer dps.

GEAR

• Head: Kena – Heavy – Divines – Stam Enchant
• Shoulder: Kena – Light – Divines – Stam Enchant
• Chest: Hundings – Medium – Divines – Stam Enchant
• Belt: Hundings – Medium – Divines – Stam Enchant
• Boots: Hundings – Medium – Divines – Stam Enchant
• Gloves: Hundings – Medium – Divines – Stam Enchant
• Pants: Hundings – Medium – Divines – Stam Enchant
• Neck: Agility – Robust – Weapon Damage Enchant
• Ring: Agility – Robust – Weapon Damage Enchant
• Ring: Agility – Robust – Weapon Damage Enchant
• DW 1: vMA Axe – Sharpened
• DW 2: vMA Dagger – Sharpened
• Bow: vMA – Infused/Sharpened

MUNDUS

Thief for the extra crit. The build is not crazy high crit so having extra is nice.

SKILLS

DW Bar:

Hurricane: This does crazy good damage. It is almost as strong as rending slashes and is an AOE.

Rending Slashes: Another good dot. Cast it immediately after rapid strikes for a boost from the maelstrom weapons.

Rapid Strikes: Bread and butter spammable dps. This skill is really fast now so DW feels much more alive than it used to.

Crit Surge: Major Brutality and a heal. We primarily use this for the extra weapon damage we get from having it slotted.

Bound Armaments: Extra stamina and heavy attack damage. What’s not to love.

Ultimate: Flawless dawnbreaker: Main “spammable” ultimate. When starting a fight meteor is better, but during a fight each dawnbreaker can hit for upwards of 85k with lucky crits.

Bow Bar:

Poison Injection: This got a large boost with this patch. I cast this every time I swap to bow bar while boss is less than 50% and every other time while boss is above 50%.

Endless Hail: Very strong aoe and single target DPS. This morph shines over the other morph for single target however since it lasts longer than arrow barrage. The buff this skill receives from the maelstrom bow is too good to pass up as well.

Acid Spray: Since we want as many storm calling skills as possible on our main bar for the weapon damage boost, we use acid spray as our main aoe. It is not much lower dps than steel tornado, but be sure to stay close enough to the mobs for hurricane to hit.

Rearming trap: This skill got a massive buff this patch. The dot from this skill is on par with rending slashes plus it gives you minor force. Rearming trap actually lasts for 16 seconds total so it is only cast every other time you are on the bow bar.

Bound Armaments: Required so you don’t need to recast it.

Ultimate: Ice Comet: Either morph works here, but I took the higher damage one for now. The ultimate regen one would be very nice for getting a quick dawnbreaker off after.

*Note: You do not have major savagery from your skills so be sure to maintain weapon crit potions. If using weapon power / weapon crit/ stamina potions then you do not need to cast crit surge.

ROTATION

Before a fight make sure you are buffed up. Cast Critical Surge > Potion > Hurricane.

Fight Start

Drop Endless Hail on the boss (if not moving) > Light attack weave to rearming trap > Light attack weave to ice comet (This should proc kena). Weapon swap > light attack (will proc kena if not already) weave into rapid strikes > light attack weave to rending slashes.

Fight Duration

Light attack weave rapid strikes until Endless Hail stops > Weapon swap > Endless Hail > Light attack weave to Poison Injection > Weapon swap > light attack (will proc kena) weave to rapid strikes > light attack weave to rending slashes > light attack weave to hurricane > light attack weave to rapid strikes. Every other time you are on bow bar use rearming trap, using poison injection the other time.

Fight End (< 50%)

The only change below 50% is every time you are on the bow bar cast poison injection. Maintaining trap every other time on bow bar. Don’t reapply dots if the boss will die prior to the dot expiring and just rapid strikes.

STATS

Unbuffed:

Buffed:

Things to Test

Trap beast on main bar instead of hurricane. – Logic: Trap beast gives you more weapon damage, but is the buffed damage to hurricane from being cast on the DW bar more beneficial?

Trap beast/camo hunter on main bar instead of crit surge. Likely worth doing, just some more testing to be done.

I want to try out the new flanking set instead of hundings. I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be better however (except during stack phases).

I will get a video version up when I have finalized a few more things, but this seems to promising to not start with now.

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