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Finally, it seems we can do hybrid DPS builds that do not completely suck. Based on the ideas of Alanarre‘s Shock Knight and Masel92‘s Elemental Fury – I have come up with the build below. It is immensely fun to play and adds big enough DPS to do most content in the game. I play on XBox, but hope to get a Bloodspawn or Slimeclaw parse in soon to get real DPS numbers. If anyone has a PC to test this with mods, I would love to know their numbers.

Race / Mundus

Dunmer or Altmer both work great.

Run with the Thief Mundus to improve critical change.

Gear

We want to get 5 light armour for the penetration bonus while maximising our buffs to Heavy Attack damage. This is achieved by combining Sergeants Mail (from Wayrest) with Undaunted Unweaver (from Blackheart Haven). We also want to leave room for a monster set on our damage bar as it will be a DPS loss if we don’t. Because this build relies almost entirely on heavy attacks for damage – we do not care much about a large magicka pool. Instead, we optimise for survival and spread our investment into both Magicka, Health and Stamina.

• Head: Light Grothdar/Ilambris/Valkyn Skoria – Divines, Prismatic Glyph
• Shoulder: Light Grothdar/Ilambris/Valkyn Skoria – Divines, Prismatic Glyph
• Chest: Sergeants Mail – Divines, Prismatic Glyph
• Legs:  Sergeants Mail – Divines, Prismatic Glyph
• Boots: Undaunted Unweaver – Divines, Prismatic Glyph
• Belt: Undaunted Unweaver – Divines, Prismatic Glyph
• Gloves: Undaunted Unweaver – Divines, Prismatic Glyph
• Damage Bar: Maelstrom Lightning Staff or Sergeants Lightning Staff with Damage Enchant. If you get sergeants staff – replace the legs of Sergeants Mail with Undaunted Unweaver and add a medium shoulder/head. You can use any other staff you find until you get BiS.
• Buff bar: 1H/S both in Undaunted Unweaver. Prismatic Glyph on Shield. Shock Glyph on weapon. Weapon preferably charged, but any trait will do (I use training because that is what I could loot so far)

Champion Points

Blue tree:

• 100 in Elemental Expert
• 75 in Thaumaturge (for Exploiter Passive)
• Rest in Staff Focus

Red tree:

• I run 100 points in Bastion and the rest 50/50 in Elemental Defender and Hardy. Up to your playstyle really, I like shields

Green tree:

• Doesn’t matter much really. You will never run out of resources with this build
• I put 60 in Arcanist and 60 in Mooncalf to unlock Wind Running (tiny, tiny buff, but what else is there worth having in the green tree?)
• Points in Tumbling are useful to avoid damage

Bar Setup

Damage Bar (Lightning Staff):

• Burning Embers
• Flame Lash – Cast if you need a heal and the target is off balance, hits pretty hard even with our low magicka pool
• Inner Light
• Elemental Blockade – keeps targets off-balance
• Dampen Magic – The oh-shit button
• Shooting Star – pop whenever ready

Buff Bar (1H/S)

• Molten Armanents
• Evil Hunter – for the passive damage buff from Fighter’s Guild
• 2 Flex spots. Example things to slot:
  • Extended Chains – to help out the tank if we need to
  • More fighter’s guild skills for more % increase to heroic slash (though it remains a weak skill we only use for the ultigen)
  • Orbs – to help out magicka DPS
  • Retreating maneuvers – for speed runs
• Heroic Slash – because ultimate is great. If you are soloing, replace with Pierce Armour
• Rearming Trap
• Flawless Dawnbreaker – we never cast this, but buffs damage a little, you can run Standard of Might too

Potions / Food

Tri stat food plus any trash potions you can pick up. I use Stamina pots to keep my pool topped up for roll dodges.

Rotation

Our main source of damage is heavy attacks and proc’ing the monster set. We only need to get to the buff bar to cast a stamina based skill and set off the undaunted unweaver buff every 10 seconds. Rotation goes like this:

Start fight with Molten Armanents + Rearming Trap

• Elemental Blockade -> 3 Heavy Attacks -> Burning Embers with Bar Swap Cancel -> Heroic Slash with Bar swap cancel -> repeat

Repeat above 4 times then rebuff Trap and Armanents and start over. Pop Shooting Star whenever it is ready.

DPS

Still very experimental. Without a maelstrom staff (rng gods have not been kind to me), purple gear (yes, I have not even golded the staff yet) and only self buffs – I am seeing my lightning attacks tick for 13-15K. Once I get everything golded out and get that damn staff, I am going to take this for a spin in the Bloodspawn test and get DPS numbers.

I would appreciate if anyone who has this gear can get me a DPS parse.

• This topic was modified 3 hours, 3 minutes ago by  tkviking2.