How will you play your DK?

Zsymon

The only DK builds I've seen were blockcasting Whip spammers, now that this build is no longer viable in the next update, how will you play a magicka DK?

Tankqull

why should it be nolonger viable? they never got their stam refill by reg anyway...

Zsymon

Tankqull wrote: »

why should it be nolonger viable? they never got their stam refill by reg anyway...

The builds I saw all had high stamina recovery, around 1400, I don't think it will work as well with 0 stamina recovery.

leepalmer95

Tankqull wrote: »

why should it be nolonger viable? they never got their stam refill by reg anyway...

Dk's need some sort of buff since their only decent build is being patched, same with templars.

themdogesbite

Dks in group = more or less unchanged as long as people die for repentance, if not ill just join in shield stacking heaven

Akavir_Sentinel

I'll still play my insane damage mitigation build. There are several other ways to replenish stamina other than natural regen.

Domander

Same build, same everything. Possibly adjusted to have higher max stam, but I already only block when being attacked so....

It will hurt those who never let their block down the most.

trimsic_ESO

It's hard to tell. We only know a few things about what will be in the next patch.

Many people have some concerns about the announced changes (no stam regen while blocking, increased cost of dodging when dodging twice or more, nerf of nirnhorned), and therefore many people have some concerns about the viability of stamina builds for DK. But there might be some good surprizes also. So let's wait and see.

Zsymon

Domander wrote: »

Same build, same everything. Possibly adjusted to have higher max stam, but I already only block when being attacked so....

It will hurt those who never let their block down the most.

When you block as recovery ticks, which is most of the time, you don't recovery any stamina for 4 seconds, so only blocking when being attacked doesn't work.

Personally I'm going to play with Molten Armaments + inferno staff heavy attack, so far I am blowing up monsters in one shot (sadly Molten Armaments is bugged and only has a 50% chance of working), but I don't know yet how it's useful in PvP. I reckon dealing with ranged builds is okay because of Reflective Scales, but I've no idea how to defend against melee builds.

Imo Magicka DKs could use some sort of buff.

ItsRejectz

I honestly don't see it hitting me at all.. My build only has 800 stam regen and I almost never even get close to running out of stamina. When the change comes, I'll probably just need to pop pots a little more that's it.

Zsymon

ItsRejectz wrote: »

I honestly don't see it hitting me at all.. My build only has 800 stam regen and I almost never even get close to running out of stamina. When the change comes, I'll probably just need to pop pots a little more that's it.

800 stamina regen is a huge difference with 0 stamina regen. 0 stamina regen means your stamina will be gone after breaking free from fear once and blocking 3 hits, you'll notice how expensive block and break free really is without stamina recovery.

Sanct16

Dragonknight is already only viable in group tbh so it wont make any difference for most of the time since Repentance will fill up your stamina.

If you want to play solo just reroll NB or Sorc.