Nos's Bo'-Bo' Stamblade PvE Guide (Update 12 Ready)

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EDITS:

9/27/2016 – Updated for Update 12

Get ready for a Bow/Bow PvE build!

Shoutout to @fire0 (@rokrdt05) for coming up with the amazing rotation that allowed me to get such fantastic results with a bow and for tanking 4-5 hours of Bloodspawns in the process of optimizing said rotation.

Race:

1. Khajit

Attributes:

All in Stamina

Food:

Health and Stamina

Mundus:

Thief and Shadow

Champion Point Distribution:

Blue tree:

100 Mighty, 56 Precise Strikes, 31 Thaumaturge

Red tree:

Points evenly across Hardy, Thick Skinned and Elemental Defender

Green tree:

100 into reduced cost, the rest into regen.

Gear Choice:

7/7 Medium

5 Divines Twice Born Star all Stam Enchants

1 Divines Velidreth Armor Stam Enchant

1 Divines Kragh Armor Stam Enchant

3 Vicious Ophidian Jewelry Weapon Damage Enchants

1 Sharpened Maelstrom Bow

1 Sharpened Master Bow

Bar setup

Main bar (vMA Bow): Guard, Light Weight Trap, Endless Hail, Focused Aim, Relentless Focus. Ultimate – Flawless Dawnbreaker

Execute bar/AoE (Master Bow): Guard, Razor Caltrops, Poison Injection, Relentless Focus, Killer’s Blade. Ultimate – Ballista (Shooting Star for AoE).

Rotation:

Step 1 (Master Bar): Merciless Resolve>Shooting Star>Potion>Caltrops>Poison Injection>Bar Swap

Step 2 (vMA Bar): Endless Hail>Medium Weave>Light Weight Trap> Focused Aim + Medium Weave x 4>Assasin’s Will>Relentless Focus>Bar Swap

Step 3 (Master Bow): Poison Injection>Bar Swap

Restart at Step 2. Throw Razor Caltrops Down every 3rd bar swap.

When the target reaches 25% the rotation changes. You must go to melee range for Killer’s Blade.

Step 1(vMA Bow): Ensure that Merciless Resolve is up>Endless hail>Bar Swap animation cancel

Step 2 (Master Bow): Poison Injection>Killer’s Blade + Medium Weave x 6.

Restart at Step 1 if the target can still take the full duration of all the DoT’s. If it cannot, keep using Killer’s Blade the target.

Reasoning:

1. Why Bow/Bow?

Because its something different and it utilizes the newly available weapons from vDSA. Because being ranged allows one to be safer and thus serrve the group better. Because you provide additional group utility. Mainly it is because it allows us to utilize both the Maelstrom and Master Bows, both of which are quiet extraordinary.

2. Why Guard?

Our Range Trap Skill provides minor force, but it is not up on Target 100% of the time. This build a crit-heavy build I prefer to have Minor Force 100% of the time. Double slotting Evil Hunter would be a viable alternative if you wanted to get rid of the skill, but it would only increase your weapon damage by around 87.

3. Why Focused Aim?

While Lethal Injection is our number one choice if there is a stamplar in the group, Focused Aim provides great utility if there is no Stamplar in group.

4. Why Master Bow?

Master bow provides a whopping 301 weapon damage on targets affected by your poison injection. In Single target fights this amounts to 440+ weapon damage (after buffs). This is a huge buff and it is on the back bar because the vMA passive buff gives 189 weapon damage, which is much better than the 1k stam you get passively from the master bow.

5. Why Light Weight Trap?

Because it is ranged and allows us to stay away from the target. Thos allows our bow attacks and skills to benefit from increased damage via Bow passives.

6. No Assasin’s will during execute?

No, because the damage is too low compared to the other skills at our disposal.

7. Why Razor Caltrops?

Razor Caltrops lasts for 30 seconds, which perfectly synergizes with our rotation.

8. Why Ballista?

Ballista is the best single target ultimate at our disposal (Use Shooting Star for AoE), since we are staying at range for the majority of the fight.

9. Why is Killer’s Blade on the Master Bow bar?

So while you can swap Trap and Killer’s blade, I found that the ranged version of trap is very difficult to place. The trap has no collision with mobs, so you literally have to aim it at their feet. In order to get the trap to land consistantly I use the Endless Hail and medium weave to prepare my Trap’s position. The time gained from Hail’s long animation when combined with a medium weave allows me to place it at the target’s feet with great accuracy.

DPS parses:

Here is an unbuffed bloodspawn parse from the PTS:

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Additional testing:

1. Minimizing Assasin’s will procs due to low damage.

2. Adjusting rotation to find a way to make Killer’s Blade work well on the front bar.

3. Testing Mephala as an alternative to Velidreth.

• This topic was modified 1 week, 3 days ago by  Nosferatuzod.