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The Goal of this Build is to provide strong DPS on a Dragonknight while using shock and fire damage and Heavy Attacks with a Lightning Staff. I’ve tried several builds that use lightning staff heavy attacks on a DK, and while they are very survivable, sustainable and very easy to play, the single target DPS mostly suffered and I’ve never managed to get past the 30k sustained sinlge target DPS parse (selfbuffed). This build does exactly that while using only AoE skills, and in the right hands and raid setup, it can surpass 40k Single target DPS easily. The issue for me is that in trials, I get 20 FPS tops and I would like to see people from decent raids using this. Can’t wait for DPS dummies, so even people with laggy pc performance can post representative parses. Besides that, I’ve had a breeze in vDSA and every vet trial with this.
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Gear:
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To understand the nature of heavy attacks, it is important to know that the Flat Damage Buffs of the Undaunted Infiltrator and Infallible Aether buff every tick of channelled heavy attacks, and the undaunted infiltrator buff remains on for 10 seconds when switching the bar, which is the difference between this build and most other Heavy Attack based DPS builds. What is even more important: it enables us to use Illambris to get the DPS up by even more. So in order to keep the Buff up, all you need to do is to cast a Magicka based skill on your back every 10 seconds. Most builds swap bars every few seconds anyway, so this is easy to achieve. The Bars look like this:
Main Bar (Lightning Staff): Dampen Magic (FLEX SPOT), Molten Armaments, Elemental Blockade, Stalwart Guard, Inner Light, Shooting Star/Thunderous Rage/Standard of Might
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Back Bar (Dual Wield): Dampen Magic (FLEX SPOT), Eruption, Engulfing Flames, Stalwart Guard, Inner Light, Shooting Star
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You can put all you want on the flex spots, I like to have a shield ready on the main bar and chains on the back bar to help chain in adds, but you could also put mages guild skills there to get additional max magicka.
CP Setup
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Rotation:
The Rotation is as easy as effective: Find someone to guard, Magicka DDs like the free minor force.
Molten Armaments > Bar Swap > Eruption (18s, and 10s UI buff) > Bar swap > Elemental Blockade > Three fully charged heavy attacks (fit exactly to the duration of Blockade) > Bar swap > Engulfing flames > Bar swap > Elemental Blockade > Three fully charged heavy attacks > start at Eruption.
Due to the 39s duration of Molten Armaments, you only need to recast it every two full rotation cycles.
Throw in your Ultimate (Meteor/Thunderous Rage/Standard of Might) whenever it is ready. You can keep your finger on your left mouse button all the time, no need to even lift it up in fights.
Eruption, meteor and engulfing flames proc the fire version of Illambris, while your heavies, thunderous rage and blockade proc the lightning version, so you get a great uptime on both, especially with a few adds to bosses around.
Parses:
I did some world bosses with a friend of mine, and here are the results, he used inner fire, so its only selfbuffed:
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Keep in mind that every single ability and attack is full aoe here, and that i suck at remembering rotations and screwed them up quite often here. Also, i used two purple unique precise undaunted infiltrator swords for tests, so for the time on my back bar, i lose a lot on damage ticks of the ground dots. Therefore, the single target dps will be higher with golden sharpened swords.
If you want to try it out, I recommend farming the lamia boss with the pet snake (slikhlenia or something) in arx corinium for sweetsong, a unique precise sword of the undaunted infiltrator, then farming the first boss for legs and a unique necklace and then going for a ring of the set in chests.
Big shoutout to @alanarre for the very informative Shockknight Build Thread and @unthought for the idea with the undaunted infiltrator set!
The build is still in development, so any advice in how to improve it further (while staying outside the box please, I know what is BiS on mag dks) is welcome! I will update it continously.
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This topic was modified 12 hours, 50 minutes ago by
Masel92.
